See my previous post... I am using that particular workaround... But parsing is something very specific: you have a string representation of something (a number in my case), in a somewhat known format (a dollar amount in my case) that you want to see represented as that particular something.
If I can parse this to int
"77,50050"
(a string whose formatting isn't even a valid number)
why can't I parse this
"77,500.50"
just because of the decimal point...
Anyway, it's probably time to close this discussion. I have a working solution, so end of story I guess.
Thanks to everyone for their input,
SA.