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Char::GetNumericValue Method (Char)

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Converts the specified numeric Unicode character to a double-precision floating point number.

Namespace:   System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

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public:
static double GetNumericValue(
	wchar_t c
)

Parameters

c
Type: System::Char

The Unicode character to convert.

Return Value

Type: System::Double

The numeric value of c if that character represents a number; otherwise, -1.0.

The c parameter must be the Char representation of a numeric value. For example, if c is "5", the return value is 5. However, if c is "z", the return value is -1.0.

A character has an associated numeric value if and only if it is a member of one of the following UnicodeCategory categories: DecimalDigitNumber, LetterNumber, or OtherNumber.

The GetNumericValue method assumes that c corresponds to a single linguistic character and checks whether that character can be converted to a decimal digit. However, some numbers in the Unicode standard are represented by two Char objects that form a surrogate pair. For example, the Aegean numbering system consists of code points U+10107 through U+10133. The following example uses the ConvertFromUtf32 method to instantiate a string that represents AEGEAN NUMBER ONE. As the output from the example shows, the GetNumericValue(Char) method returns -1 if it is passed either a high surrogate or a low surrogate of this character.

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The following example demonstrates GetNumericValue.

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using namespace System;
int main()
{
   String^ str =  "input: 1";
   Console::WriteLine( Char::GetNumericValue( '8' ) ); // Output: "8"
   Console::WriteLine( Char::GetNumericValue( str, 7 ) ); // Output: "1"
}

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
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