How Do I cast a string to a Decimal?

[Guest]

I would imagine that this is a pretty trivial operation, but I can not figure out how to cast a string variable to a Decimal. I tried Decimal dVariable = (Decimal)strStringVariable, but it does not compile. Help. Thanks.

 

[Jochen Kalmbach]

I would imagine that this is a pretty trivial operation, but I can not
figure out how to cast a string variable to a Decimal. I tried
Decimal dVariable = (Decimal)strStringVariable, but it does not
compile. Help. Thanks.

You cannot CAST a string to a decimal... you only can CONVERT it...

Try:
decimal dVariable = decimal.Parse(strStringVariable);

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I would imagine that this is a pretty trivial operation, but I can
not figure out how to cast a string variable to a Decimal. I tried
Decimal dVariable = (Decimal)strStringVariable, but it does not
compile. Help. Thanks.

You can't cast it, because there's no implicit or explicit conversion
from String to Decimal, and Decimal isn't in String's type hierarchy.

Have a look at Decimal.Parse instead.

 

[Floyd Burger]

string s = "333";

decimal d = decimal.Parse( s );


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Floyd Burger

I would imagine that this is a pretty trivial operation, but I can not

figure out how to cast a string variable to a Decimal. I tried Decimal
dVariable = (Decimal)strStringVariable, but it does not compile. Help.
Thanks.