How do I parse a string with a decimal point to a double?

Question

I want to parse a string like \"3.5\" to a double. However,

double.Parse(\"3.5\") 

yields 35 and

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Answer 1

I improved the code of @JanW as well...

I need it to format results from medical instruments, and they also send ">1000", "23.3e02", "350E-02", and "NEGATIVE".

private string FormatResult(string vResult)
{
  string output;
  string input = vResult;

  // Unify string (no spaces, only .)
  output = input.Trim().Replace(" ", "").Replace(",", ".");

  // Split it on points
  string[] split = output.Split('.');

  if (split.Count() > 1)
  {
    // Take all parts except last
    output = string.Join("", split.Take(split.Count() - 1).ToArray());

    // Combine token parts with last part
    output = string.Format("{0}.{1}", output, split.Last());
  }
  string sfirst = output.Substring(0, 1);

  try
  {
    if (sfirst == "<" || sfirst == ">")
    {
      output = output.Replace(sfirst, "");
      double res = Double.Parse(output);
      return String.Format("{1}{0:0.####}", res, sfirst);
    }
    else
    {
      double res = Double.Parse(output);
      return String.Format("{0:0.####}", res);
    }
  }
  catch
  {
    return output;
  }
}