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

You just need to have the correct culture set, when calling Parse, like so:

string s = "11,20";

decimal c1 = decimal.Parse(s, new CultureInfo("fr-FR"));
decimal c2 = decimal.Parse(s, new CultureInfo("en-AU"));

Console.WriteLine(c1);
Console.WriteLine(c2);