How Do I cast a string to a Decimal?

[Harry Keck]

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)strStr ingVariable, but it does not compile. Help. Thanks.

[Jochen Kalmbach]

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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)strStr ingVariable, 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(s trStringVariabl e);

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[Floyd Burger]

string s = "333";

decimal d = decimal.Parse( s );
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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)strStr ingVariable, but it does not compile. Help.
Thanks.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Harry Keck <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote:

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)strStr ingVariable, 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.

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