Parsing strings to numeric

[michael]

You can use a custom format specifier to format a numeric to a string... e.g
int i= 2;

string formatSpecifier = "## px";

i.ToString(formatSpecifier);

But given given a string and the custom format specifier used to format it,
how can you parse that string back to a numeric ?

I've searched the documentation yet an answer alludes me.

Michael

[Tobin Harris]

"michael" <mi*****@fusiongrp.com> wrote in message
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But given given a string and the custom format specifier used to format it, how can you parse that string back to a numeric ?
I may have misunderstood you needs, but can you not try somehting like :
int myNum = int.Parse( someNumString );

HTH

Tobin
I've searched the documentation yet an answer alludes me.

Michael

[Peter Rilling]

You might try a using the UnitConverter class or another class derived from
TypeConverter. I have never used these before, but I believe the purpose is
to parse a string that has non-parsable characters.

"michael" <mi*****@fusiongrp.com> wrote in message
news:e1*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

You can use a custom format specifier to format a numeric to a string... e.g int i= 2;

string formatSpecifier = "## px";

i.ToString(formatSpecifier);

But given given a string and the custom format specifier used to format it, how can you parse that string back to a numeric ?

I've searched the documentation yet an answer alludes me.

Michael