Convert string to float using c#

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How to convert string to float.

i have to use it to set the size of Label

this.lblComanyName.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Microsoft Sans Serif", 14.25F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ((byte)(0)));

Posted 9-Oct-12 9:53am

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[no name] 9-Oct-12 16:07pm

did you try float.Parse()?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Oct-12 16:08pm

I don't believe so, so I decided to answer...
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Oct-12 16:07pm

As if MSDN was broken, honestly...
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-09T10:06:00

This not "convert" (this word is a real curse of CodeProject inquirers, I don't know why), this is "parse":
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fd84bdyt.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7yd1h1be.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t9ebt447.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0kb11ck8.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/994c0zb1.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3s27fasw.aspx[^].

And yes, for most applications you really want to use double, not Single. For System.Single (alias float), all methods are the same:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.single.aspx[^].

The difference the "Try…" forms of methods make is that they do not throw exceptions, ever. (They do not throw and then catch as I thought, they don't throw at all; I checked up this implementation detail by source code.) Instead, you check up the return values to see if the parsing is successful or not.

—SA