How to parse whether a string is a valid US currency value

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Originally I was using

Decimal.TryParse(input, New Decimal)

to figure out of user input is valid money. This works for most cases, except I only want to accept money within 2 digits, so "10.001" should not be accepted.

I looked all over SO for this simple and I imagine common issue but could not find an answer.

Is [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8253819/unable-to-restrict-number-of-decimal-digits-when-parsing-a-string-to-decimal-in) any help? — Mark, Dec 12 '16 at 18:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '16 at 18:30

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Mark in the discussion solved this for me. Thanks! Here's the VB.net code for what I was looking for:

 Dim regex As Regex = New Regex("[0-9]?[0-9]?(\.[0-9]?[0-9]$)")
 Dim match As Match = regex.Match(input)
 If Not match.Success Then

answered Dec 12 '16 at 18:30

Christopher Bales

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