Get currency symbol angular 2

Question

I'm building an application using angular 2 and currency pipe, but I can't find a way to get the currency symbol according to the ISO value without any number. What I mean is that I just want the symbol without setting a number to be formatted.

Normal situation $3.00 I want only the $symbol, not the number

Answer 1

Answered in 2017: As I ONLY wanted the symbol for the currency, I ended up extending currency pipe with a constant number and return only the symbol. It feels sort of a "hack" to have a constant number, but as i don't want to create new currency maps and I'm not able to provide a number, i think is the easiest way.

Here is what I did:

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
import {CurrencyPipe} from "@angular/common";

@Pipe({name: 'currencySymbol'})
export class CurrencySymbolPipe extends CurrencyPipe implements 
PipeTransform {
    transform(value: string): any {
    let currencyValue = super.transform(0, value,true, "1.0-2");
    return currencyValue.replace(/[0-9]/g, '');
    }
}

Now I can use it as:

{{ 'EUR' | currencySymbol }} and get '€'

Thanks for your help and ideas!

Update: Changed accepted answer to Varun's one as in 2020 I would use getCurrencySymbol() to accomplish that task