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I did it without the cast, and I did it with the &quot;int&quot; cast... either way, I get the error &quot;Specified cast is not valid&quot;.<br />
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And then I did this: &nbsp;if (int.Parse(data[&quot;TranC&quot;].T<wbr />oString())<wbr /> == 'A')<br />
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and the CLR tells me the input string was not in the correct format!<br />
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Any other suggestions?
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I did it without the cast, and I did it with the "int" cast... either way, I get the error "Specified cast is not valid".

And then I did this:  if (int.Parse(data["TranC"].ToString()) == 'A')

and the CLR tells me the input string was not in the correct format!

Any other suggestions?

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did you try the <br />
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data[&quot;TranC&quot;].ToString() == &quot;A&quot;;//?
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did you try the

data["TranC"].ToString() == "A";//?

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I'm going to give you the points because you were very close... this is what I wound up doing:<br />
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&nbsp;shipping = uint.Parse(data[&quot;Shipping&quot;<wbr />].ToString<wbr />());<br />
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And it appears to be working... thank you for the time...
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I'm going to give you the points because you were very close... this is what I wound up doing:

 shipping = uint.Parse(data["Shipping"].ToString());

And it appears to be working... thank you for the time...

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This is my statement: &nbsp; 
<pre><code id="code-8230339">if ((byte)data[&quot;TranC&quot;] == 'A')</code></pre>
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The field is defined as &quot;char&quot; in a Firebird table. How should I cast this?
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This is my statement:   

The field is defined as "char" in a Firebird table. How should I cast this?

Specified cast is not valid?

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).