C# get digits from float variable

Question

I have a float variable and would like to get only the part after the comma, so if I have 3.14. I would like to get 14 as an integer. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Try

float n = 3.14f;
int fractionalPart = new System.Version(n.ToString()).Minor;

David's "cheating version" answer doesn't seem to be very popular at the moment, but after looking into this for the better part of the day, I found the System.Version class. It has a constructor which takes a string. Using Reflector, I saw that it works by splitting the string into an array. I ran a test getting the fractional part of the arbitrary number 1234567891.1234567891m. With 1,000,000 iterations, it was 50% faster than the other answer I posted in spite of the fact that I first had to convert the decimal number to a string for the sake of the Version constructor. So David is getting a bad break when using a string conversion concept seems to be a bright way to go. Microsoft did.