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

How about a CleanCurrency method?

/// Loops each char in the string and returns only numbers, . or ,
static double? CleanCurrency(string currencyStringIn) {
  string temp = "";
  int n;
  for (int i = 0; i < currencyStringIn.Length; i++) {
    string c = currencyStringIn.Substring(i, 1);
    if (int.TryParse(c, out n) || c == "." || c == ",") {
      temp += c;
    }
  }
  if (temp == "") {
    return null;
  else {
    return double.Parse("0" + temp);
  }
}

The idea here being to just get an actual number regardless of what the string content is.

double? payout = CleanCurrency("$3.50");