How can I parse only the float number from the string?

Question

foreach (object item in listBox1.SelectedItems)
{
    string curItem = item.ToString();
    var parts = curItem.Split(\"{}XY=, \".ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.Remov         


        

Answer 1

You can simply extract the float from the string by using Regular Expressions:

string xCoord = Regex.Match(curItem, @"[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+").Groups[1].Value;

After that, you can parse it to a float.

More info about regular expressions can be found here, or you could take a look at the Regex class page from MSDN.