Try to Parse currency value with currency symbol to decimal in CSharp

Description

The following code shows how to try to Parse currency value with currency symbol to decimal.

Example


//from w  w w. ja  v a 2  s .c om
using System;
using System.Globalization;
class MainClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        decimal number;
        // Parse currency value using en-GB culture.
        string value = "1,097.63";
        NumberStyles style = NumberStyles.Number | NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol;
        CultureInfo culture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-GB");
        if (Decimal.TryParse(value, style, culture, out number))
            Console.WriteLine("Converted '{0}' to {1}.", value, number);
        else
            Console.WriteLine("Unable to convert '{0}'.", value);

    }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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