String to DateTime

[Armin Zingler]

It is one of your statements, however I got no reaction on using the
VAL for this.
(I never used it however I saw it once)

I'm not sure if I understand you...
Val always expects the English format, and, as "nobody" says, the format
will be defined later by the user, so Val is not always usable.

 

[Armin Zingler]

You are restating what I've already said. In my previous post, I
said:

Is there any way, given MyString ("$$53.95") and MyFormat ("$$0.00"),
to convert MyString back into a Decimal? There is no
Decimal.ParseExact(...).

Yes, there's nothing else I can do but repeat it. You can believe it or not:
It is not there! I belive that you need it, really, but it's not there.
Sorry, I didn't design the Framework.

I already know there isn't a ParseExact(...) method for Decimal.
My question was: Is there any way, given MyString (such as "$$53.95")
and MyFormat (such as "$$0.00") to convert MyString back into
Decimal?

I don't know a way, otherwise I would have mentioned it.

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Armin

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[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Armin,

I did this,

Dim a As Double = Val(Replace("$49.95", "$", ""))
Dim b As Double = Val(Replace("12.5%", "%", ""))

Strange is that it gives back

49.95 and 12.5 where it should give something else in my opinion for us.

Cor

 

[Armin Zingler]

Hi Armin,

I did this,

Dim a As Double = Val(Replace("$49.95", "$", ""))
Dim b As Double = Val(Replace("12.5%", "%", ""))

Strange is that it gives back

49.95 and 12.5 where it should give something else in my opinion for
us.

Why strange? That's what I expect.