Over in the microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization newsgroup, Marcel asks:

Hi NG!
I have a little question about the localization of a double.

If I use the CultureInfo "en-US" I have the following behavior:

1.) If I enter the value 2.5 into a textbox the double.Parse(text1.Text) returns 2.5 as expected.
2.) If I enter the value 2,5 into a textbox the double.Parse(text1.Text) returns 25...why 25 and not 2500. The , is the group-separator.

Is it possible to ignore these behavior to ensure the 2,5 and 2.5 will always be interpreted as 2.5 (like in the calculator) ? Or do I have to implement this behavior by my self?

Regards
Marcel

Unfortunately, there is no way to do this within the .NET Framework. There is only one decimal separator. And the grouping separator is treated as an ignorable thing, without it having zeroes added aiutomatically....

And applications like the Windows calculator are doing what they do all by themselves.

Though it is worth considering what you would want an application to do with strings like:

1,234,567,890.123

1.234.567.890,123

Noting of course that the Windows calculator does not do much that one might expect in many different cases.

When one writes a parser, one should definitely keep the weird cases in mind....

 

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