Converting string to decimal

Question

In C#, I'm trying to convert a string to decimal.

For example, the string is "(USD 92.90)"

How would you parse this out as a decimal with Decimal.Parse fcn.

Answer 1

I'm going on the assumption here that the string you're trying to parse is an actual currency value.

CultureInfo c = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);
c.NumberFormat.CurrencyNegativePattern = 14; // From MSDN -- no enum values for this
c.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol = "USD";

decimal d = Decimal.Parse("(USD 92.90)", NumberStyles.Currency, c);

Answer 2

You could start off with a reg-exp to extract the number part and then use Decimal.TryParse to parse the sub-string.