Best way to convert string to decimal separator “.” and “,” insensitive way?

Question

Application deals with strings that represent decimals that come from different cultures. For example \"1.1 and \"1,1\" is the same value.

I played with Deci

Answer 1

I found another way to do it. It looks odd but it works fine for me.

So if you don't know culture of the target system and you don't know which value you will get like 12.33 or 12,33 you can do following

string amount = "12.33";
// or i.e. string amount = "12,33";

var c = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
var s = c.NumberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator;

amount = amount.Replace(",", s);
amount = amount.Replace(".", s);

decimal transactionAmount = Convert.ToDecimal(amount);