Fix bug in BigDec.FromString() which would not parse negative

numbers correctly.

For example BigDec.FromString("-1.5") would be interpreted as
-0.5 due to the incorrect way the method handles the fractional
part of the string.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Source/Basetypes/BigDec.cs b/Source/Basetypes/BigDec.cs
index feabb425..4206b2f2 100644
--- a/Source/Basetypes/BigDec.cs
+++ b/Source/Basetypes/BigDec.cs
@@ -88,7 +88,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.Basetypes {
         }

       }

 

-      return new BigDec(integral + fraction, exponent);

+      if (integral.Sign == -1) {

+        return new BigDec(integral - fraction, exponent);

+      }

+      else {

+        return new BigDec(integral + fraction, exponent);

+      }

     }

 

     internal BigDec(BIM mantissa, int exponent) {