I have a C# application that simply parses all of the txt documents within a given network directory and imports the data to a SQL server db. Everything was cruising along just fine until about the 1800th file when it happend to have a few blanks in columns that are called out as DBType.Decimal (and the value is usually zero in the files, not blank). So I got this error, "cannot convert nvarchar to decimal". I am wondering how I could tell the app to simply skip the lines that have this issue?? Perhaps I could even just change the column type to varchar even tho values are numbers (what problems could this create?) Thanks for any help!

using System; 
using System.Data; 
using System.Data.SQLite; 
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Data.SqlClient;


namespace JohnDeereCMMDataParser 
{ 
    internal class Program 
    {


        public static List<string> GetImportedFileList()
        {
            List<string> ImportedFiles = new List<string>();
            using (SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(@"Server=FRXSQLDEV;Database=RX_CMMData;Integrated Security=YES"))
            {
                connect.Open();
                using (SqlCommand fmd = connect.CreateCommand())
                {

                    fmd.CommandText = @"SELECT FileName FROM CMMData;";
                    fmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
                    SqlDataReader r = fmd.ExecuteReader();
                    while (r.Read())
                    {
                        ImportedFiles.Add(Convert.ToString(r["FileName"]));

                    }
                }
            }
            return ImportedFiles;
        } 




        private static void Main(string[] args) 
        {


            Console.Title = "John Deere CMM Data Parser";
            Console.WriteLine("Preparing CMM Data Parser... done");
            Console.WriteLine("Scanning for new CMM data...");
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;

            using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=FRXSQLDEV;Database=RX_CMMData;Integrated Security=YES"))
            {


                con.Open();

                using (SqlCommand insertCommand = con.CreateCommand())
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Connecting to SQL server...");
                    SqlCommand cmdd = con.CreateCommand();
                    string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Documents and Settings\js91162\Desktop\CMM WENZEL\", "*_*_*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
                    List<string> ImportedFiles = GetImportedFileList();
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@FeatType", DbType.String));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@FeatName", DbType.String));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Axis", DbType.String));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Actual", DbType.Decimal));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Nominal", DbType.Decimal));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Dev", DbType.Decimal));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@TolMin", DbType.Decimal));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@TolPlus", DbType.Decimal));
                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@OutOfTol", DbType.Decimal));

                    foreach (string file in files.Except(ImportedFiles))

                    {
                        var FileNameExt1 = Path.GetFileName(file);
                        cmdd.Parameters.Clear();
                        cmdd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@FileExt", FileNameExt1));
                        cmdd.CommandText =
                            @" 
                    IF (EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'RX_CMMData' AND TABLE_NAME = 'CMMData')) BEGIN SELECT COUNT(*) FROM CMMData WHERE FileName = @FileExt; END";



                        int count = Convert.ToInt32(cmdd.ExecuteScalar());
                        con.Close();
                        con.Open();

                        if (count == 0)
                        {




                                Console.WriteLine("Preparing to parse CMM data for SQL import...");
                                if (file.Count(c => c == '_') > 5) continue;

                                insertCommand.CommandText =
                                    @"
                    INSERT INTO CMMData  (FeatType, FeatName, Axis, Actual, Nominal, Dev, TolMin, TolPlus, OutOfTol, PartNumber, CMMNumber, Date, FileName) 
                    VALUES     (@FeatType, @FeatName, @Axis, @Actual, @Nominal, @Dev, @TolMin, @TolPlus, @OutOfTol, @PartNumber, @CMMNumber, @Date, @FileName);";







                                string FileNameExt = Path.GetFullPath(file);


                                string RNumber = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file);
                                int index2 = RNumber.IndexOf("~");
                                Match RNumberE = Regex.Match(RNumber, @"^(R|L)\d{6}(COMP|CRIT|TEST|SU[1-9])(?=_)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

                                Match RNumberD = Regex.Match(RNumber, @"(?<=_)\d{3}[A-Z]\d{4}|\d{3}[A-Z]\d\w\w\d(?=_)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

                                Match RNumberDate = Regex.Match(RNumber, @"(?<=_)\d{8}(?=_)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
                                string RNumE = Convert.ToString(RNumberE);
                                string RNumD = Convert.ToString(RNumberD);


                                if (RNumberD.Value == @"") continue;
                                if (RNumberE.Value == @"") continue;
                                if (RNumberDate.Value == @"") continue;
                                if (index2 != -1) continue;




                                DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(RNumberDate.Value, "yyyyMMdd", Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture);
                                string cmmDate = dateTime.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy");


                                string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(file);
                                bool parse = false;

                                foreach (string tmpLine in lines)
                                {


                                    string line = tmpLine.Trim();
                                    if (!parse && line.StartsWith("Feat. Type,"))
                                    {
                                        parse = true;
                                        continue;
                                    }
                                    if (!parse || string.IsNullOrEmpty(line))
                                    {
                                        continue;
                                    }



                                    Console.WriteLine(tmpLine);
                                    foreach (SqlParameter parameter in insertCommand.Parameters)
                                    {
                                        parameter.Value = null;
                                    }

                                    string[] values = line.Split(new[] { ',' });

                                    for (int i = 0; i < values.Length - 1; i++)
                                    {
                                        if (i = "" || i = null) continue;
                                        SqlParameter param = insertCommand.Parameters[i];
                                        if (param.DbType == DbType.Decimal)
                                        {
                                            decimal value;
                                            param.Value = decimal.TryParse(values[i], out value) ? value : 0;
                                        }
                                        else
                                        {
                                            param.Value = values[i];
                                        }
                                    }


                                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@PartNumber", RNumE));
                                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@CMMNumber", RNumD));
                                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Date", cmmDate));
                                    insertCommand.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@FileName", FileNameExt));
                                    insertCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();

                                      insertCommand.Parameters.RemoveAt("@PartNumber");
                                     insertCommand.Parameters.RemoveAt("@CMMNumber");
                                     insertCommand.Parameters.RemoveAt("@Date");
                                    insertCommand.Parameters.RemoveAt("@FileName");

                                }


                            }

                                }  
                        Console.WriteLine("CMM data successfully imported to SQL database...");

                    }
                    con.Close();

            }
        } 
    } 
}