How to convert string to double with proper cultureinfo

Question

I have two nvarchar fields in a database to store the DataType and DefaultValue  and I have a DataType Double and value as 65 89875 in English format   Now I want the user to see the value as per the selected browser language format  65 89875 in English should be displayed as 65 89875 in German   Now if the user edits from German format to 65 89875 which is 65 89875 equivalent in English  and the other user views from an English browser it comes as 6589875   This happens because in the database it was stored as 65 89875 in the nvarchar column and when converted using English culture it becomes 6589875 since it considers   as a separator which is a decimal operator for German   How do I get this working for all the browsers

User · Answer

You need to define a single locale that you will use for the data stored in the database, the invariant culture is there for exactly this purpose.

When you display convert to the native type and then format for the user's culture.

E.g. to display:

string fromDb = "123.56";
string display = double.Parse(fromDb, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString(userCulture);

to store:

string fromUser = "132,56";
double value;
// Probably want to use a more specific NumberStyles selection here.
if (!double.TryParse(fromUser, NumberStyles.Any, userCulture, out value)) {
  // Error...
}
string forDB = value.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

PS. It, almost, goes without saying that using a column with a datatype that matches the data would be even better (but sometimes legacy applies).

User · Answer

You can convert the value user provides to a double and store it again as nvarchar  with the aid of FormatProviders  CultureInfo is a typical FormatProvider  Assuming you know the culture you are operating   System Globalization CultureInfo EnglishCulture   new System Globalization CultureInfo  en-EN    System Globalization CultureInfo GermanCulture   new System Globalization CultureInfo  de-de      will suffice to do the neccesary transformation  like   double val  if double TryParse  65 89875   System Globalization NumberStyles Float  GermanCulture   out val         string valInGermanFormat   val ToString GermanCulture       string valInEnglishFormat   val ToString EnglishCulture      if double TryParse  65 89875   System Globalization NumberStyles Float  EnglishCulture   out val         string valInGermanFormat   val ToString GermanCulture       string valInEnglishFormat   val ToString EnglishCulture

User · Answer

Convert ToDouble x  can also have a second parameter that indicates the CultureInfo and when you set it to System Globalization CultureInfo InvariantCulture the result will allways be the same

User · Answer

I took some help from MSDN  but this is my answer   double number  string localStringNumber  string doubleNumericValueasString    65 89875   System Globalization NumberStyles style   System Globalization NumberStyles AllowDecimalPoint   if  double TryParse doubleNumericValueasString  style  System Globalization CultureInfo InvariantCulture  out number       Console WriteLine  Converted   0   to  1     doubleNumericValueasString  number   else     Console WriteLine  Unable to convert   0      doubleNumericValueasString   localStringNumber  number ToString System Globalization CultureInfo CreateSpecificCulture  de-DE

User · Answer

Use InvariantCulture  The decimal separator is always  quot   quot  eventually you can replace  quot   quot  by  quot   quot  When you display the result   use your local culture  But internally use always invariant culture TryParse does not allway work as we would expect There are change request in  net in this area  https   github com dotnet runtime issues 25868

User · Answer

You can change your UI culture to anything you want  but you should change the number separator like this   CultureInfo info   new CultureInfo  fa-IR    info NumberFormat NumberDecimalSeparator        Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   info  Thread CurrentThread CurrentUICulture   Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture    With this  your strings converts like this   12 49  instead of  12 49  or  12 49

User · Answer

I have this function in my toolbelt since years ago  all the function and variable names are messy and mixing Spanish and English  sorry for that    It lets the user use   and   to separate the decimals and will try to do the best if both symbols are used       Public Shared Function TryCDec ByVal texto As String  Optional ByVal DefaultValue As Decimal   0  As Decimal          If String IsNullOrEmpty texto  Then             Return DefaultValue         End If          Dim CurAsTexto As String   texto Trim Replace          Replace                        You can probably use a more modern way to find out the              System current locale  this function was done long time ago         Dim SepDecimal As String  SepMiles As String         If CDbl  3 24     324 Then             SepDecimal                   SepMiles               Else             SepDecimal                   SepMiles               End If          If InStr CurAsTexto  SepDecimal   gt  0 Then             If InStr CurAsTexto  SepMiles   gt  0 Then                     both symbols was used find out what was correct                 If InStr CurAsTexto  SepDecimal   gt  InStr CurAsTexto  SepMiles  Then                          The usage was correct  but get rid of thousand separator                     CurAsTexto   Replace CurAsTexto  SepMiles                      Else                          The usage was incorrect  but get rid of decimal separator and then replace it                     CurAsTexto   Replace CurAsTexto  SepDecimal                          CurAsTexto   Replace CurAsTexto  SepMiles  SepDecimal                  End If             End If         Else             CurAsTexto   Replace CurAsTexto  SepMiles  SepDecimal          End If              At last we try to tryParse  just in case         Dim retval As Decimal   DefaultValue         Decimal TryParse CurAsTexto  retval          Return retval     End Function

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