Parsing decimal with thousands separator

Question

I have the following block of code:

string price = \"1,234.56\";
decimal value = 0;
var allowedStyles = (NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint & NumberStyles.AllowT         


        

Answer 1

The result of this binary and (&) will always be 0 (false, or NumberStyles.None). That's why it doesn't allow decimal and thousand separators:

var allowedStyles = (NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint & NumberStyles.AllowThousands);

Change to binary or (|):

var allowedStyles = (NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint | NumberStyles.AllowThousands);