Best way to convert string to decimal separator “.” and “,” insensitive way?

Question

Application deals with strings that represent decimals that come from different cultures. For example \"1.1 and \"1,1\" is the same value.

I played with Deci

Answer 1

You have the following possibllities:

1. You know the culture
   1. Use the current Culture setting, for which the computer is installed
   2. You let the user decide to set his culture -> user settings in your program
2. You do not know the culture
   
   1. You must decide about it: you have to define and document your decision
   2. Guess: you try to parse, and try to parse, and try to ... until you get valid numbers