How to get an instance of Money based on a string symbol?

[Luis Da Costa]

Hi everyone,

Here what I'm trying to do, please let me know if my way of thinking if the mistake here.

I received a symbol (EUR, CHF, USD...) as a string from a fermer, and I have it associated with my store's object (in a way that this defines what currency the stores accepts).

My idea here was to simply create a currency variable, from Money, on the store's object and then call if every time I would bee some conversion/presentation to be done.

So it would be like this:

print("You have to pay \(StoreObject.currency(100))")

Can I do this using the actual Money library or is there any other way to do that?

Thank you!

[Daniel Thorpe]

Hi @aliasbody - yeah, this isn't possible, and it's a long standing issue, #29.

Essentially, Money is a framework of static currency/money types, and you require dynamic money types, to create them from strings.

This is definitely something that I would like to change in a future version of this framework, but at the moment, I don't have enough time to work on it.

I would say that you should look into other options as solutions to this problem.

I'm gonna close this as a duplicate of #29.

[Luis Da Costa]

Thank you for this fast answer and excellent work on the library.