Convert.ToDouble ("1.3") returns 13

Question

What's going on here?

Convert.ToDouble("1.3")

I have a line with a value of "1.3". When I convert to double, it returns 13. I want to return 1.3.

Answer 1

This is probably due to your current culture, it uses a different decimal separator character than .. You can do this instead:

double.Parse("1.3", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);