yes, i applied this suggestion, but maybe you are missing something.
the original version of parF(n) does not throw any exception, while stroToFloat() does.
those "try"s you see in the code are there exactly because of that.
but parF() is handy, and i'd like to use it also in cases where exception must be thrown.
i came to this:
all parF(n) will throw exception
while parF(n,n) will not (to be used where it is not needed).