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parsing dollar values - URGENT

Hi,

I have a string = to a dollar value. eg:

string dollars = "$15.45";

how do I parse it into a decimal?

i want:

decimal decPrice == 15.45;

but i want to do it by parsing the string into a decimal.. do I use an Iformatprovider or something? please give an example, i don't know how to use iformatprovider

thanks

-Trevor

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trevorhartman

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thanks for the reply, i'll put that in place for now... but i'm curious to see how to do it with an IFormatProvider because I want to be able to use that for other things in the future. How do I tell decimal.Parse that my string is in a currency format so it knows how to parse?

-Trevor

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