Problem with floating point scalars

[Turee]

When i try to define floating point numbers in yaml files type provider reports following error: 'FSharp.Configuration.ConfigTypeProvider+FSharpConfigurationProvider' reported an error: Input string was not in a correct format.

Example yaml file (issue reproduces):

Test:
    AFloatingPointNumber: 0.1

This works fine:

Test:
    AIntegerNumber: 1

[vasily-kirichenko]

Try 0,1.

[Turee]

That seems to work. I browsed the type provider code and i thought the parsing is culture invariant. Shouldn't this be the case?

Edit: Atleast TypeProviders.Helpers.fs has CultureInfo.InvariantCulture passed to Double.TryParse. (line 123):

    let (|Float|_|) = tryParseWith (fun x -> Double.TryParse(x, NumberStyles.Any, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture))

[vasily-kirichenko]

What do you suggest to fix it? It should be able to parse floats with any decimal separator on machines with any culture.

[Turee]

I do not have a fix yet but i can look into it. Just wanted to make sure this is not a known issue.

[Turee]

The issue was with the SharpYaml failing to parse the 0.1 formatted double value. => Updated SharpYaml that now works. Second issue was with calling a double values ToString() method, which is not culture invariant. Then parser parsed the double with culture invariant setting on resulting invalid results.

[Turee]

I'm creating a pull request.