parse currency string to decimal

[Mark]

How do you parse a currency string to a decimal? I'd like to avoid having
to parse the number out, removing the $ manually. That sounds like a hack.
There are times that this string will be currency and others when it will be
a text integer or decimal.

//This bombs because of the string having an improper format.
Decimal.Parse("$9,200.00")

Thanks in advance!
Mark

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Mark,

You can do this by creating a NumberFormatInfo instance and setting the
properties on that to handle the particular aspects of your string. For
example, you want to set the CurrencySymbol property to "$", the
NumberDecimalDigits property to 2, NumberGroupSeparator to ",",
NumberGroupSizes to 3, etc, etc. Most of these are probably set by default,
but once you have that, you can pass it to the Parse method and it should
parse the value just fine.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Mark" <fi******@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote in message
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How do you parse a currency string to a decimal? I'd like to avoid having
to parse the number out, removing the $ manually. That sounds like a hack.
There are times that this string will be currency and others when it will be a text integer or decimal.

//This bombs because of the string having an improper format.
Decimal.Parse("$9,200.00")

Thanks in advance!
Mark

[Mark]

Thanks Nicholas. This makes sense in theory. However, the code below bombs
with an exception message of "Input string was not in a correct format."
Suggestions? Thanks again.

System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo nfi = new
System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo();
nfi.CurrencySymbol = "$";
nfi.CurrencyDecimalSeparator = ".";
nfi.NumberGroupSeparator = ",";
nfi.NumberDecimalDigits = 2;
Response.Write("Parsed decimal = " + Decimal.Parse("$96,000.00",
nfi).ToString());

Thanks again!
Mark
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Mark,

You can do this by creating a NumberFormatInfo instance and setting the properties on that to handle the particular aspects of your string. For
example, you want to set the CurrencySymbol property to "$", the
NumberDecimalDigits property to 2, NumberGroupSeparator to ",",
NumberGroupSizes to 3, etc, etc. Most of these are probably set by default, but once you have that, you can pass it to the Parse method and it should
parse the value just fine.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Mark" <fi******@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

How do you parse a currency string to a decimal? I'd like to avoid having to parse the number out, removing the $ manually. That sounds like a hack. There are times that this string will be currency and others when it

will be

a text integer or decimal.

//This bombs because of the string having an improper format.
Decimal.Parse("$9,200.00")

Thanks in advance!
Mark

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Mark,

Actually, poking around, you could do this:

Double pdblValue = Double.Parse("$96,000.00", NumberStyles.Any);

It will allow the currency symbol, using the NumberFormatInfo returned
by the static CurrentInfo property on the NumberFormatInfo class.

Also, if you wanted to set the NumberFormatInfo instance up yourself, I
would clone the value returned by the static InvariantInfo property (because
the one returned by the property is read-only), and then set the
CurrencySymbol to "$". All the other defaults will give you what you want.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
"Mark" <fi******@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote in message
news:un**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Thanks Nicholas. This makes sense in theory. However, the code below bombs with an exception message of "Input string was not in a correct format."
Suggestions? Thanks again.

System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo nfi = new
System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo();
nfi.CurrencySymbol = "$";
nfi.CurrencyDecimalSeparator = ".";
nfi.NumberGroupSeparator = ",";
nfi.NumberDecimalDigits = 2;
Response.Write("Parsed decimal = " + Decimal.Parse("$96,000.00",
nfi).ToString());

Thanks again!
Mark
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Mark,

You can do this by creating a NumberFormatInfo instance and setting

the

properties on that to handle the particular aspects of your string. For
example, you want to set the CurrencySymbol property to "$", the
NumberDecimalDigits property to 2, NumberGroupSeparator to ",",
NumberGroupSizes to 3, etc, etc. Most of these are probably set by

default,

but once you have that, you can pass it to the Parse method and it should

parse the value just fine.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Mark" <fi******@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

How do you parse a currency string to a decimal? I'd like to avoid

having to parse the number out, removing the $ manually. That sounds like a hack. There are times that this string will be currency and others when it

will

be

a text integer or decimal.

//This bombs because of the string having an improper format.
Decimal.Parse("$9,200.00")

Thanks in advance!
Mark