Decimal::TryParse Method (String, Decimal%)
Converts the string representation of a number to its Decimal equivalent. A return value indicates whether the conversion succeeded or failed.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- s
- Type: System::String
The string representation of the number to convert.
- result
- Type: System::Decimal%
When this method returns, contains the Decimal number that is equivalent to the numeric value contained in s, if the conversion succeeded, or is zero if the conversion failed. The conversion fails if the s parameter is nullptr, is not a number in a valid format, or represents a number less than MinValue or greater than MaxValue. This parameter is passed uninitialized.
This overload differs from the Decimal::Parse(String) method by returning a Boolean value that indicates whether the parse operation succeeded instead of returning the parsed numeric value. It eliminates the need to use exception handling to test for a FormatException in the event that s is invalid and cannot be successfully parsed.
Parameter s contains a number of the form:
[ws][sign][digits,]digits[.fractional-digits][ws]
Elements in square brackets ([ and ]) are optional. The following table describes each element.
Element | Description |
|---|---|
ws | Optional white space. |
sign | An optional sign. |
digits | A sequence of digits ranging from 0 to 9. |
, | A culture-specific thousands separator symbol. |
. | A culture-specific decimal point symbol. |
fractional-digits | A sequence of digits ranging from 0 to 9. |
Parameter s is interpreted using the NumberStyles::Number style. This means that white space and thousands separators are allowed but currency symbols are not. To explicitly define the elements (such as currency symbols, thousands separators, and white space) that can be present in s, use the Decimal::TryParse(String, NumberStyles, IFormatProvider, Decimal%) method overload.
Parameter s is parsed using the formatting information in a NumberFormatInfo object initialized for the current system culture. For more information, see CurrentInfo. To parse a string using the formatting information of some other specified culture, use the Decimal::TryParse(String, NumberStyles, IFormatProvider, Decimal%) method overload.
If necessary, the value of s is rounded using rounding to nearest.
A Decimal object has 29 digits of precision. If s represents a number that has more than 29 digits, but has a fractional part and is within the range of MaxValue and MinValue, the number is rounded, not truncated, to 29 digits using rounding to nearest.
If during a parse operation a separator is encountered in the s parameter, and the applicable currency or number decimal and group separators are the same, the parse operation assumes that the separator is a decimal separator rather than a group separator. For more information about separators, see CurrencyDecimalSeparator, NumberDecimalSeparator, CurrencyGroupSeparator, and NumberGroupSeparator.
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.