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 Decimal.TryParse flags combinations but couldn’t achieve the result I want. “1,1” became “11” or “0” after all.

Is it possible to convert such strings to decimal in one line of code without pre-replacing “,” char to “.” or playing with NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator ?

How do you handle such situations?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You have the following possibllities:

1. You know the culture
   1. Use the current Culture setting, for which the computer is installed
   2. You let the user decide to set his culture -> user settings in your program
2. You do not know the culture
   1. You must decide about it: you have to define and document your decision
   2. Guess: you try to parse, and try to parse, and try to … until you get valid numbers