I am working on a C# application. I want to change number decimal figure with comma(,) where i have dot(.) using regular expression.
For example:
Price= 100,00.56
As this international rule of representing numeric values but I Sweden they have different ways for numbers Like
Price= 100.00,56
So i want to change dot(.) into comma(,) and comma(,) into dot(.) using RegEx. Could guide me about this.
When formatting numbers, you should use the string format overload that takes a CultureInfo object. The culture name for swedish is "sv-SE", as can be seen here.
decimal value = -16325.62m;
Console.WriteLine(value.ToString(CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("sv-SE")));
Edit:
As #OregonGhost points out - parsing out numbers should also be done with CultureInfo.
Not a RegEx solution but from my experience - more correct:
public static string CheckDecimalDigitsDelimiter(this string instance)
{
var sv = new CultureInfo("sv-SE");
var en = new CultureInfo("en-US");
decimal d;
return (!Decimal.TryParse(instance, NumberStyles.Currency, sv, out d) &&
Decimal.TryParse(instance, NumberStyles.Currency, en, out d)) ?
d.ToString(sv) : // didn't passed by SV but did by EN
instance;
}
What does this method do? It ensures that if given string is incorrect Sweden string but is correct English - convert it to Sweden, e.g. 100,00 -> 100,00 but 100.00 -> 100,00.
You can do this even without regex. For example
var temp = price.Replace(".", "<TEMP>");
var temp2 = temp.Replace(",", ".");
var replaced = temp2.Replace("<TEMP>", ",");
Also have a look at
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator
Not sure what 100,00.56 represents, did you mean 10.000,56?
To answer your question:
For such a simple task, why use RegEx? You can do it much easier:
string oldValue = "100,00.56";
char dummyChar = '&'; //here put a char that you know won't appear in the strings
var newValue = oldValue.Replace('.', dummyChar)
.Replace(',', '.')
.Replace(dummyChar, ',');
Edit
I agree with #Oded, for formatting numbers use the CultureInfo class.
Do not rely on RegExp for this kind of thing :) Use the build in cultures fx:
decimal s = decimal.Parse("10,000.56", NumberStyles.Currency, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"));
string output = s.ToString("N",CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("da-DK"));
en-US will parse it correctly and da-DK uses the other kind of representation. I live in DK and therefore use that but you should use the culture which fits your output.
Related
I am working with doubles. In the Netherlands we make use of 51,3 instead of 51.3. I did write a piece of code that works with dots instead of commas. But the result of the previously written code returns a double the English way, with a dot. I am encountering some strange errors.
Here is what I have:
var calResult = 15.2d;
var calResultString = calResult.ToString(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL"));
var result = double.Parse(calResultString);
calResult == "15.2" -> as expected
calResultString == "15,2" -> as expected
result == "152" -> here I expect a comma.
A also did try to add the cultureinfo also in the double.Parse. This resulted in a "15.2".
TLDR: I need to convert an English/American double to a Dutch(or similar rules) one.
Thanks in advance! :)
P.S
I hope this is not a duplicate question, but didn't found anything this specific.
You, probably, should either provide "nl-NL" whenever you work with Netherlands' culture
var calResult = 15.2d;
var calResultString = calResult.ToString(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL"));
// We should parse with "nl-NL", not with CurrentCulture which seems to be "en-US"
var result = double.Parse(calResultString, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL"));
Or specify CurrentCulture (default culture)
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL");
var calResult = 15.2d;
// now CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL") is redundant
var calResultString = calResult.ToString();
var result = double.Parse(calResultString);
Finally, if you have a string which represents some floating point value in en-US culture, and you want the same value but be a string in nl-NL format:
string source = "123.456";
string result = double
.Parse(source, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"))
.ToString(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL"));
Numbers and strings don't contain any culture information, instead you specify the culture when you convert between numbers and strings.
result == "152" -> here I expect a comma
What happened is that you asked the operating system to parse "15,2" into a double, and didn't specify a culture. It defaulted to US culture and ignored the comma.
If you'd specified a culture:
var result = double.Parse(calResultString, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL"));
it would have given you the right value (15.2), and that might even have been displayed as 15,2 if your computer was configured to the right number format (and the debugger used your preference).
Ideally you don't hard-code the culture, but use the culture that the user has chosen.
I've written a simple method that will check for the coma character in your input and replace it with a dot. I believe the best way is to take an input as a string value. this way you can manipulate it and then you can parse it and return a double or a string if you wish:
var input = Console.ReadLine();
double parsedDouble;
if (input.Contains(","))
{
input = input.ToString().Replace(",", ".");
}
if (!Double.TryParse(input, out parsedDouble))
{
Console.WriteLine("Error parsing input");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine(parsedDouble);
}
Console.ReadLine();
edit: the answers from Robin Bennett/Dmitry Bychenko are much better than mine, as mine is just more manual. I wasn't aware of the overload of parse that he had provided.
I'll leave my solution, cause it does solve this issue, even if it's a bit more... brute ;)
var calResult = 15.2d;
var calResultString = calResult.ToString();
string result = double.Parse(calResultString).ToString(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("nl-NL"));
I try find this in Windows.Globalization, but didn't find.
Is it possible to get it or not? If not? Are there alternative ways of formatting in different regions?
Example: Convert.ToDouble("0" + Decimal_Symbol.ToString() + "0001");
It's in System.Globalization, not Windows.Globalization:
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator
you will find above an example of how to use the french culture, after according to your need you can change the culture.
decimal decimalNumber = 1000.1m;
var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("fr-fr");
Console.WriteLine(decimalNumber.ToString(culture));
You can try to use CultureInfo, and the ToString overload that asks number formatting.
In this example, N4 is a number displayed with 4 decimals:
var MyNumber = 123.4567m;
var MyCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("pt-BR"); // en-US fr-FR
var Result = MyNumber.ToString("N4", MyCulture);
char regionSymbol = (1.1).ToString()[1];
Hi I want to find if there is any better way to parse the string to Decimal which covers various format
$1.30
£1.50
€2,50
2,50 €
2.500,00 €
I see a lot of examples using culture to convert . & ,. But in my case, I don't have anything to identify the culture.
This display field I get from the client and I need to extract the value.
I tried following (which didn't work for all scenario) but would like to know if we have any best way to handle this.
Decimal.Parse(value,NumberStyles.Currency |
NumberStyles.Number|NumberStyles.AllowThousands |
NumberStyles.AllowTrailingSign | NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol)
I also tried to use Regex to remove the currency sign but unable to convert both 1.8 or 1,8 in one logic.
Well, assuming you always get a valid currency format, and it's only the culture that changes, you could guess which character is used as a decimal point and which is used as a thousands separator by checking which appears the last in the number. Then remove all the thousand separators and parse it like its culture was invariant.
The code would look like the following:
// Replace with your input
var numberString = "2.500,00 €";
// Regex to extract the number part from the string (supports thousands and decimal separators)
// Simple replace of all non numeric and non ',' '.' characters with nothing might suffice as well
// Depends on the input you receive
var regex = new Regex"^[^\\d-]*(-?(?:\\d|(?<=\\d)\\.(?=\\d{3}))+(?:,\\d+)?|-?(?:\\d|(?<=\\d),(?=\\d{3}))+(?:\\.\\d+)?)[^\\d]*$");
char decimalChar;
char thousandsChar;
// Get the numeric part from the string
var numberPart = regex.Match(numberString).Groups[1].Value;
// Try to guess which character is used for decimals and which is used for thousands
if (numberPart.LastIndexOf(',') > numberPart.LastIndexOf('.'))
{
decimalChar = ',';
thousandsChar = '.';
}
else
{
decimalChar = '.';
thousandsChar = ',';
}
// Remove thousands separators as they are not needed for parsing
numberPart = numberPart.Replace(thousandsChar.ToString(), string.Empty);
// Replace decimal separator with the one from InvariantCulture
// This makes sure the decimal parses successfully using InvariantCulture
numberPart = numberPart.Replace(decimalChar.ToString(),
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator);
// Voilá
var result = decimal.Parse(numberPart, NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint | NumberStyles.Number, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
It does look a bit of complicated for a simple decimal parsing, but I think should do the work for all the input numbers you get or at least the most of them.
If you do this in some sort of loop, you might want to use compiled regex.
The problem here is that in one case . means decimal point but in other it is a thousnads separator. And then you have , as decimal separator. Clearly, it is impossible for the parser to "guess" what is meant, so the only thing you can do is to decide on some rules on how to handle which case.
If you have control over the UI the best approach would be to validate user input and just reject any value that can't be parsed with an explanation on which format is expected.
If you have no control over the UI, the second best option would be to check for some "rules" and then devise which culture is appropriate for that given input and try to run it through decimal.TryParse for that given culture.
For the given input you have, you could have the following rules:
input.StartsWith("$") -> en-US
input.StartsWith("£") -> en-GB
input.StartsWith("€") || input.EndsWith("€") -> de-DE
These could reasonably handle all cases.
In code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] inputs =
{
"$1.30",
"£1.50",
"€2,50",
"2,50 €",
"2.500,00 €"
};
for (int i = 0; i < inputs.Length; i++)
{
Console.Write((i + 1).ToString() + ". ");
if (decimal.TryParse(inputs[i], NumberStyles.Currency,
GetAppropriateCulture(inputs[i]), out var parsed))
{
Console.WriteLine(parsed);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Can't parse");
}
}
}
private static CultureInfo GetAppropriateCulture(string input)
{
if (input.StartsWith("$"))
return CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US");
if (input.StartsWith("£"))
return CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-GB");
if (input.StartsWith("€") || input.EndsWith("€"))
return CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("de-DE");
return CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
}
Output:
1.30
1.50
2.50
2.50
2500.00
The only way you could do that is just strip string from symbols and change . and , to decimal separator. Something like:
public decimal UniversalConvertDecimal(string str)
{
char currentDecimalSeparator = Convert.ToChar(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator);
str = str.Replace('.', currentDecimalSeparator);
str = str.Replace(',', currentDecimalSeparator);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(str.Length);
foreach(var ch in str)
{
if(Char.IsDigit(ch) || ch == currentDecimalSeparator)
builder.Add(ch);
}
string s = builder.ToString();
return Convert.ToDecimal(s);
}
First you have to get current decimal separator from your system.
Then you have to replace . and , with current decimal separator.
Next, you will have to strip the string from any other char than a digit or decimal separator. At the end you can be sure that Convert.ToDecimal is going to work. But I don't know if it is something you want to achieve.
If you need some mechanism to save currency to database, there is a far simpler solution. Just convert this currency to least currency part. For example instead of $1, save 100 cents.
So if you have $1.99, just multiply it by 100 and you will get: 199 cents. And this integer can be saved to db.
Hi all. I have a double number (Ex: 0.000006). I want convert it to string type. But result is "6E-06". I dont want it, i want 0.000006".Thanks you so much
double a = 0.000006;
string resultString = a.toString();
I don't know many number after "." character
It's simple that if you want to show a number as exactly as what it looks, we can cast it to decimal and use the default ToString() like this:
var s = ((decimal)yourNumber).ToString();
//if yourNumber = 0.00000000000000000000000006
//just append the M after it:
var s = (0.00000000000000000000000006M).ToString();
Please check this article and find the format which suits your needs: http://www.csharp-examples.net/string-format-double/
Looks like this one is good enough:
String.Format("{0:0.00}", 123.4567);
Use String.Format() with the format specifier.
double a = 0.000006;
string formatted = String.Format("{0:F6}", a);
Try with the Roundtrip 'R' format specifier:
double a = 0.000006;
string resultString = a.ToString("R");
Double Rate_USD = Convert.ToDouble(txtRateUsd.Text);
string Rate_USD = txtRateUsd.Text;
I need convert a String to a decimal in C#, but this string have different formats.
For example:
"50085"
"500,85"
"500.85"
This should be convert for 500,85 in decimal. Is there is a simplified form to do this convertion using format?
Some cultures use a comma to indicate the floating point. You can test this with the following code on an aspx page:
var x = decimal.Parse("500,85");
Response.Write(x + (decimal)0.15);
This gives the answer 501 when the thread culture has been set to a culture that uses the comma as floating point. You can force this like so:
var x = decimal.Parse("500,85", new NumberFormatInfo() { NumberDecimalSeparator = "," });
While decimal.Parse() is the method you are looking for, you will have to provide a bit more information to it. It will not automatically pick between the 3 formats you give, you will have to tell it which format you are expecting (in the form of an IFormatProvider). Note that even with an IFormatProvider, I don't think "50085" will be properly pulled in.
The only consistent thing I see is that it appears from your examples that you always expect two decimal places of precision. If that is the case, you could strip out all periods and commas and then divide by 100.
Maybe something like:
public decimal? CustomParse(string incomingValue)
{
decimal val;
if (!decimal.TryParse(incomingValue.Replace(",", "").Replace(".", ""), NumberStyles.Number, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out val))
return null;
return val / 100;
}
This will work, depending on your culture settings:
string s = "500.85";
decimal d = decimal.Parse(s);
If your culture does not by default allow , instead of . as a decimal point, you will probably need to:
s = s.Replace(',','.');
But will need to check for multiple .'s... this seems to boil down to more of an issue of input sanitization. If you are able to validate and sanitize the input to all conform to a set of rules, the conversion to decimal will be a lot easier.
Try this code below:
string numValue = "500,85";
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culInfo = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR");
decimal decValue;
bool decValid = decimal.TryParse(numValue, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Number, culInfo.NumberFormat, out decValue);
if (decValid)
{
lblDecNum.Text = Convert.ToString(decValue, culInfo.NumberFormat);
}
Since I am giving a value of 500,85 I will assume that the culture is French and hence the decimal separator is ",". Then decimal.TryParse(numValue, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Number, culInfo.NumberFormat,out decValue);
will return the value as 500.85 in decValue. Similarly if the user is English US then change the culInfo constructor.
There are numerous ways:
System.Convert.ToDecimal("232.23")
Double.Parse("232.23")
double test;
Double.TryParse("232.23", out test)
Make sure you try and catch...
This is a new feature called Digit Grouping Symbol.
Steps:
Open Region and Language in control panel
Click on Additional setting
On Numbers tab
Set Digit Grouping Symbol as custom setting.
Change comma; replace with (any character as A to Z or {/,}).
Digit Grouping Symbol=e;
Example:
string checkFormate = "123e123";
decimal outPut = 0.0M;
decimal.TryParse(checkFormate, out outPut);
Ans: outPut=123123;
Try This
public decimal AutoParse(string value)
{
if (Convert.ToDecimal("3.3") == ((decimal)3.3))
{
return Convert.ToDecimal(value.Replace(",", "."));
}
else
{
return Convert.ToDecimal(value.Replace(".", ","));
}
}