Try to Parse currency value using en-GB culture in CSharp

Description

The following code shows how to try to Parse currency value using en-GB culture.

Example


using System;//www .  j  av  a 2 s.c o m
using System.Globalization;

public class Example
{
    public static void Main()
    {

        string value;
        System.Globalization.NumberStyles style;
        System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture;
        float number;
        

        value = "$1,2345.67";
        style = System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Number | 
                System.Globalization.NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol;
        culture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-GB");
        if (Single.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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