String to decimal parsing C#

Question

I am trying to parse or convert a string to decimal in C#.

I need to be able to parse strings like,

$123,345,676.8999 to its equivalent 123345676.90.

I need to have only 2 places after the decimal point and that needs to be suitably rounded.

Can you guys please suggest a way to do the above? Basically, any string in the form of currency (with $,pound symbol etc). I should be able to parse it and convert it to decimal.

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2753701/convert-any-currency-string-to-double — Brian Dishaw, Aug 04 '11 at 17:42
With _any_ currency, you need to be careful about rounding. In some currencies `x.8999` would not be rounded at all. — Austin Salonen, Aug 04 '11 at 17:46
Thanks Austin...ill kep that in mind...for now, US is my main concern. — Tendulkar, Aug 04 '11 at 17:48

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '11 at 17:46

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Try this:

var val = double.Parse("$123,345,676.8999", NumberStyles.AllowThousands | NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint | NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol);
val = Math.Round(val, 2);

answered Aug 04 '11 at 17:46

Chandu

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '11 at 17:44

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You can use decimal.TryParse to perform the parsing -- the link has some samples on how the parsing works.

answered Aug 04 '11 at 17:44

Bryan Crosby

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 04 '11 at 17:44

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Very simple answer: use Decimal.Parse()

answered Aug 04 '11 at 17:44

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