VB Equiv. of val( ) function

Is there something like the javascript val() function in Visual Basic I want to take a text area and display the value in a dollars using formatCurrency( ) function. But of course that requires that the field is always numeric. I'd probably like to do this in a quick and dirty way and just convert anything that's not an actual number to zero. I am just looking for the quickest way to do that.

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VB Equiv. of val( ) function

GEO_Barrett

hi,

i'm not sure if there are something preprepared for that like javascript or not but you can do that by code its not hard

Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'call the function and display it in messagebox

MessageBox.Show(val(TextBox1.Text))
End Sub

'you can write this function

Private Function val(ByVal value As String)
Dim result As Double

Dim success As Boolean = Double.TryParse(value, result)
If success = True Then

Return String.Format("{0:C2}", result)
Else

Return String.Format("{0:C2}", 0.0)
End If

End Function
End Class

hope this helps

marouane
Thank you both for your help. Val() wasn't working at first so I didn't think it existed. I feel dumb since it was right in front of my face.
FireSon

Or you can just use Val() in the Microsoft.VisualVasic namespace.
VB Equiv. of val( ) function

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