Question

I have a string, that could look like “123,34”, “123123,09”, “1234”, “123.34”, “123123.09”

(Stringrepresentation of 10,2 decimal that will be stored into a MySql DB)

Due to the culture of the ASP.net thread may differ, because my application supports localization, I need to find a safe way to convert the most likely user input into a decimal.

How is that possible?

I tried various Decimal.Parse attemps, that all failed so far.

Solution:
My final solution was a mixed one. I used string replace to ensure my date is formatted into the specified CultureInfo I used for parsing

Answer 1

Decimal.Parse is the way to go but you need the particular overload that incorporates localisation, Decimal.Parse Method (String, IFormatProvider).