It appears that the key question is, what do you plan to do with temp. If
you are going to work with it as a number, you might want to consider decimal.Parse
or decimal.TryParse. You will need to use the overload that includes the
NumberStyles option if you need to handle currency.

Jim Wooley
http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/archive/2006/03/15/788.aspx

Thanks, that did it!

I was trying to return a double, so I it to:

        Dim temp As String = Me.txtAmount.Text
        Dim nonNumerics As String
        nonNumerics = "$,"
        temp = temp.Trim(nonNumerics.ToCharArray)
        Dim returnValue As Double

        Return returnValue.Parse(temp)

BK,

All you should need is:

     Dim temp As String = Me.txtAmount.Text

     Return Double.Parse(temp, Globalization.NumberStyles.Currency)

Kerry Moorman


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Actually, you would need to wrap this in a try..catch block as Double.Parse
will throw a format exception if the temp value is not a number. As an alternative,
you could use the following:

Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine(GetValue(txtAmount.Text).ToString)
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub

    Private Function GetValue(ByVal InVal As String) As Double
        Dim temp As Double
        If Double.TryParse(InVal, temp) Then
            Return temp
        Else
            'Return something else to indicate that this is an invalid input
            Return Double.MinValue
        End If
    End Function

Jim Wooley
http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley

To use a combo ornot
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