The s parameter contains a number of the form:

[ws][sign]digits[ws]

Elements in square brackets ([ and ]) are optional. The following table describes each element.

The s parameter is interpreted using the System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Integer style. In addition to the byte value's decimal digits, only leading and trailing spaces together with a leading sign are allowed. (If the sign is present, it must be a positive sign or the method throws an OverflowException.) To explicitly define the style elements that can be present in s, use either the byte.Parse(string, System.Globalization.NumberStyles) or the byte.Parse(string, System.Globalization.NumberStyles, IFormatProvider) method.

The s parameter is parsed using the formatting information in a System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo object that is initialized for the current system culture. For more information, see System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.CurrentInfo. To parse a string using the formatting information of some other culture, use the byte.Parse(string, System.Globalization.NumberStyles, IFormatProvider) method.

The following example demonstrates the byte.Parse(string) method.

using System;
public class ByteParseClass {
public static void Main() {
   string str = "  100   ";
   Console.WriteLine("String: \"{0}\" <Byte> {1}",str,Byte.Parse(str));
}
}
   

The output is

String: " 100 " <Byte> 100