Convert currency string to decimal?

Question

Objective

Sort a string that is displaying currency data like this $1,995.94 numerically in a set of data.

Code

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Answer 1

Here is a method that most closely resembles the code you've provided

public static decimal Parse(string input)
{
    return decimal.Parse(Regex.Replace(input, @"[^\d.]", ""));
}

Here is an option that will support negative numbers, and will stop if it finds a second period value, thus reducing the number of strings it returns that are not valid decimal values. It also has a few other modifications not seen in the OP to handle additional cases your current code doesn't.

public static decimal Parse(string input)
{
    return decimal.Parse(Regex.Match(input, @"-?\d{1,3}(,\d{3})*(\.\d+)?").Value);
}