Parse value with Currency symbol

Question

I have looked to multiple SO questions on parsing currency, the best (recommended) way seems to be the one I\'m trying below:

var payout = decimal.Parse(\"$2.10\         


        

Answer 1

Similar approach @un-lucky mentioned as one of the answer, I tried making it generic and work for every Symbol/Format

public static decimal ParseCurrencyWithSymbol(string input)
{
    var cultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures)
        .GroupBy(c=> c.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol)
        .ToDictionary(c=> c.Key, c=>c.First());


    var culture = cultures.FirstOrDefault(c=>input.Contains(c.Key));

    decimal result = 0;
    if(!culture.Equals(default(KeyValuePair)))
    {
        result = decimal.Parse(input, NumberStyles.Currency | NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint, culture.Value);
    }
    else
    {
        if( !decimal.TryParse(input, out result))
        {
            throw new Exception("Invalid number format");
        }
    }

    return result;
}

Usage

decimal output = ParseCurrencyWithSymbol("$2.10");

Working Code