# Parsing

The Money package provides a number of methods to parse a monetary amount:

* Money.parse
* Currency.parse
* Currencies.parse

You may also find Fixed.parse is useful for parsing decimal values which can then be used to create a Money instance.

### Money.parse

Allows you to parse a string containing a monetary amount.

When using Money.parse you must know the currency of the monetary amount.

```dart
import 'package:money2/money2.dart';
import 'package:test/test.dart';

void main() {
  test('Parse money', () {
      /// Parse the amount using default pattern for AUD.
      final t1 = Money.parse('10.00', isoCode: 'AUD');
      expect(t1.toString(), equals(r'$10.00'));

      final t2 = Money.parse(r'$10.00', isoCode: 'AUD');
      expect(t2.amount, equals(Fixed.fromNum(10.00)));

      /// Parse using an alternate pattern
      final t3 =
          Money.parse(r'$10.00 AUD', isoCode: 'AUD', pattern: 'S0.00 CCC');
      expect(t3.amount, equals(Fixed.parse('10.00', scale: 2)));
    });
}

```

### Currency.parse

Parse a monetary amount for a known currency.

```dart
import 'package:money2/money2.dart';
import 'package:test/test.dart';

void main() {

  test('parse with Currency', () {
   /// Parse using a currency.
   final t1 = CommonCurrencies().aud.parse(r'$10.00');
   expect(t1.toString(), equals(r'$10.00'));
   expect(t1.currency.isoCode, equals('AUD'));
  });
}
```

### Currencies.parse

Allows you to parse a monetary amount using an embedded currency code to derive the currency.

```dart
import 'package:money2/money2.dart';
import 'package:test/test.dart';

void main() {

      test('parse with unknown currency', () {
            final t1 = Currencies().parse(r'$AUD10.00');
            expect(t1.toString(), equals(r'$10.00'));
            expect(t1.currency.isoCode, equals('AUD'));
      });
}
```

## If you got this far you deserve a prize.

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But a word to the unwise.

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##


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