Parsing Text to Objects
Converting objects to a textual representation is one thing, dealing with user (or text file and so on) input and turning it into rich objects is another thing. You’ve already seen a whole set of Parse, TryParse, and Exact variants, but there are a few more things to note.
Sometimes going back and forth between objects and text is not a lossless conversion. In such cases, the framework often provides a format string named R to emit a text representation that will restore the original value when using a Parse method. A good example is floating-point numbers, whose decimal representation is not exact:
As you can see from ...
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