Parse value with Currency symbol

Question

I have looked to multiple SO questions on parsing currency, the best (recommended) way seems to be the one I\'m trying below:

var payout = decimal.Parse(\"$2.10\         


        

Answer 1

You can try like this:

decimal currencyValue;
string inputCurrency = "$12.6";
if (decimal.TryParse(inputCurrency, NumberStyles.Currency, CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"), out currencyValue))
  {
      // proceed with currencyValue
  }
else 
  {
      //Show error ; Conversion failed
  }

For dealing with all currencies you can use the following:

        Dictionary currencyCulture = new Dictionary();
        currencyCulture.Add('$', "en-US");
        currencyCulture.Add('€', "en-IE");
        // populate all posible values here
        decimal currencyValue;
        string inputCurrency = "€2,66";
        char currencySymbol= inputCurrency.ToCharArray()[0];
        CultureInfo currentCulture= CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(currencyCulture[currencySymbol]);
        if (decimal.TryParse(inputCurrency, NumberStyles.Currency, currentCulture, out currencyValue))
        {
            // proceed with currencyValue
        }
        else 
        {
         //Show error ; Conversion failed
        }

You can choose culture Names from here