Question

I have -$2.00 as the string. I am trying to change it to decimal by removing - and $ using substring, but I am doing it wrong. Can someone help me?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Substring will return a new string. I suspect your issue is likely from trying to mutate the string in place, which does not work.

You can do:

string result = original.Substring(2);
decimal value = decimal.Parse(result);

Depending on how the input string is generated, you may want to use decimal.TryParse instead, or some other routine with better error handling.