I have a simple string containing VAT-percantage value that needs to be stored in a decimal. The string looks like this: "19.00%". When I use the decimal.Parse() methode I always get an FormatException.

Code looks like this

    NumberFormatInfo nfi = new NumberFormatInfo() 
                                              {
                                                  PercentDecimalSeparator = ".",
                                                  PercentSymbol = "%"
                                              };
    decimal.Parse("19.00%",NumberStyles.Any, nfi);

I know, that it would be possible (in the excample above) to simply remove the %-char from the string and then parse. But isn't there a solution to use built in parsing, which can be used without testing the string for the type of number the user typed in.