Parse a currency value with leading and trailing white space, and white space after the U.S. currency symbol
Imports System.Globalization Imports System.Threading Module Example Public Sub Main() Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US") Dim value As String Dim styles As NumberStyles value = " $ 6,999.3299 " styles = NumberStyles.Number Or NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol ShowNumericValue(value, styles) End Sub Private Sub ShowNumericValue(value As String, styles As NumberStyles) Dim number As Double Try number = Double.Parse(value, styles) Console.WriteLine("Converted '{0}' using {1} to {2}.", _ value, styles.ToString(), number) Catch e As FormatException Console.WriteLine("Unable to parse '{0}' with styles {1}.", _ value, styles.ToString()) End Try Console.WriteLine() End Sub End Module