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Parse "-30.00" to a float results in -3000.0

Whenever I try to parse the String

"-30.00" to a float, I'll get -3000.0 as a result.

Can someone explain to me why that happens? What can I do to avoid such a problem?

Here's the code:

Note: splitMin is "MIN(-30.00)" and splitMax is "MAX(70.00)" in the beginning. This is why I had to remove a few characters. 

splitMin = splitMin.Remove(0, 4);
splitMax = splitMax.Remove(0, 4);

splitMin = splitMin.Remove(splitMin.Length - 1, 1);
splitMax = splitMax.Remove(splitMax.Length - 1, 1);

float min = float.Parse(splitMin);
float max = float.Parse(splitMax);
Solution

  • I've just checked with

    Console.WriteLine(float.Parse("30,00"));

    And this does return 3000 for me, so I'd imagine your culture settings are in play here.

    Try

    float.Parse(splitMin, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)