Convert string to decimal retaining the exact input format
- by Brett
Hi All,
I'm sure this is a piece of cake but I'm really struggling with something that seems trivial.
I need to check the inputted text of a textbox on the form submit and check to see if it's within a desired range (I've tried a Range Validator but it doesn't work for some reason so I'm trying to do this server-side).
What I want to do is:
Get the value inputted (eg. 0.02), replace the commas and periods, convert that to a decimal (or double or equivalent) and check to see if it's between 0.10 and 35000.00.
Here's what I have so far:
string s = txtTransactionValue.Text.Replace(",", string.Empty).Replace(".", string.Empty);
decimal transactionValue = Decimal.Parse(s);
if (transactionValue >= 0.10M && transactionValue <= 35000.00M) // do something
If I pass 0.02 into the above, transactionValue is 2. I want to retain the value as 0.02 (ie. do no format changes to it - 100.00 is 100.00, 999.99 is 999.99)
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Brett
