parseFloat does not work on Windows?

Unity Engine
1

ParseFloat does not seem to work on Windows. It returns 666 for “66.6”. On OSX it returns 66.6. Does anyone have a workaround?

2

It’s proof… Windows is of the devil. :stuck_out_tongue:

3

Have you BugReported this problem to UT?

4

I think it has something to do with language settings. I’m a Dutch speaking Belgian with an English OS.

The result of a ToString in Unity on 66.6 returns “66,6” on that machine. So a comma instead of a period. Which is how this number would be spelled in Dutch, but not in any programming language I know.I’ve never had a problem like this with other programming languages on that machine.

5

How would I do that?

6

Go into the Unity folder and open “Report Bug”

7

It’s not a unity bug… or a bug. Here’s what I use

    static System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo nfi;
    internal static System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo numberFormat
    {
        get
        {
            if (nfi == null)
            {
                nfi = new
                    System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo();
                nfi.NumberDecimalSeparator = ".";
                nfi.NumberGroupSeparator = ",";
            }
            return nfi;
        }
    }
[..]
float fvalue = float.Parse(stringvalue, numberFormat);
8

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=7345 for the issues we hit in Splume serialization.

9

Thanks for the tip! :!: :smile:
Is there any way to find and use the number format in Javascript?

10

Hi Matthew!
(Tale of Tales’ Michael Samyn here, of The Path… see you next week in San Francisco! :slight_smile: )

11

It’s basically the same thing. In Unity, everything uses .NET.

–Eric