VBA converts string “12.00” to 1200 instead of 12.00. This happens only on EU regional setting and not US settings

Question

I don't know why but the string in vba is "12.00" and when I conver to a double with

myDouble= CDbl(stringDouble)

or

myDouble = stringDouble

I cannot do anything.. any help? (I cannot change the regional settings to US on all pcs..)

thanks

Answer 1

As you already noted in your comments, this is a regional setting - as your system is using , as the decimal separator, the string gets converted to 1200. The solution in this case is to convert it with Val:

Sub Sample()
    Dim myDouble As Double
    Dim stringDouble As String
    stringDouble = "12.00"
    myDouble = Val(stringDouble)
End Sub

Answer 2

This is most likely due to regional settings - decimal separator differs. E.g. in my locale it's , - that's why for string-to-number conversion I use such syntax:

x = "12.00"
DBLnum = CDbl(Replace(x, ".", ","))