String with negative float to float? [duplicate]

Question

Here is basically the code I have :

string text = "-0.05537987";

float value = Single.Parse(text);

When I try and parse a negative number like I did here I get "Input string was not in the correct format."

Answer 1

Your parsing should work, I believe your current culture has a different character for decimal separator. Use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture

float value = Single.Parse(text, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);