Culture specific parsing of decimal numbers

October 09, 2009 C# Snippet

Ever wanted to convert a decimal value that you know the format of without depending on what culture information the current app is running under? Well, here's how:

System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo format = new System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo();
format.NumberDecimalSeparator = "."; // this could be "," etc
format.NumberGroupSeparator = ",";
double d = Convert.ToDouble("9.95", format);
string s = d.ToString(f); // back to "9.95"

Culture specific parsing of decimal numbers

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