FormatCurrency and converting back to a number

[Mark]

I have a field that has been formatted using the vb.net FormatCurrency
method. Now, I need to get the amount back into a regular field so I
can use it for calculations. Is there an easy way to remove the
formatting characters ($,) ?

I suppose I could always use the replace function to remove the $ and
comma, but I wasn't sure if there was any easier way, i.e. Format(...)

TIA,
Mark

[Cor Ligthert]

Mark,

You mean something as this?

Dim a As Decimal = 10.1D
TextBox1.Text = FormatCurrency(a)
Dim b As Decimal = CDec(TextBox1.Text)

Cor

"Mark"

I have a field that has been formatted using the vb.net FormatCurrency
method. Now, I need to get the amount back into a regular field so I
can use it for calculations. Is there an easy way to remove the
formatting characters ($,) ?

I suppose I could always use the replace function to remove the $ and
comma, but I wasn't sure if there was any easier way, i.e. Format(...)

TIA,
Mark

[Anand[MVP]]

Or even assiging to a decimal should work fine if you have Option Strict Off.

Parsing for a $ sign is always prone to probelms when your program runs on a
system that has a different currency symbol.

Rgds,
Anand
http://www.dotnetindia.com

"Mark" wrote:

I have a field that has been formatted using the vb.net FormatCurrency
method. Now, I need to get the amount back into a regular field so I
can use it for calculations. Is there an easy way to remove the
formatting characters ($,) ?

I suppose I could always use the replace function to remove the $ and
comma, but I wasn't sure if there was any easier way, i.e. Format(...)

TIA,
Mark

[Mark]

Yep. I was trying to use Convert.ToDouble and it was crashing... I
hadn't even thought of using the previous CDbl command....

Many thanks.....
"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message news:<us**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>...

Mark,

You mean something as this?

Dim a As Decimal = 10.1D
TextBox1.Text = FormatCurrency(a)
Dim b As Decimal = CDec(TextBox1.Text)

Cor

"Mark"

I have a field that has been formatted using the vb.net FormatCurrency
method. Now, I need to get the amount back into a regular field so I
can use it for calculations. Is there an easy way to remove the
formatting characters ($,) ?

I suppose I could always use the replace function to remove the $ and
comma, but I wasn't sure if there was any easier way, i.e. Format(...)

TIA,
Mark

[Tom Shelton]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 05:39:08 -0700, Anand[MVP] wrote:

Or even assiging to a decimal should work fine if you have Option Strict Off.

Parsing for a $ sign is always prone to probelms when your program runs on a
system that has a different currency symbol.

Rgds,
Anand
http://www.dotnetindia.com

"Mark" wrote:

Or just use Decimal.Parse or Double.Parse methods :)

Dim dec As Decimal = Decimal.Parse ("$1,250.25", NumberStyles.Currency)

or

Dim dbl As Double = Double.Parse ("$1,250.25", NumberStyles.Currency)

These methods are aware of currency symbol settings, so you don't have to
worry about the parsing issues involved. I would tend to use
Decimal.Parse, though since Decimal works better with monetary values :)
--
Tom Shelton [MVP]

[Cor Ligthert]

Mark,

It is not previous, it is one of the methods advised to use because it has
much more power than the single Net methods because there is added
functionality (and because there is no Microsoft indexer involved which can
confuse me) I would not know why not to use them.

It is full dotNet.

Cor