How to convert a currency string to a double with jQuery or Javascript?

Question

I have a text box that will have a currency string in it that I then need to convert that string to a double to perform some operations on it.

"$1,100.00" -> 1100.00

This needs to occur all client side. I have no choice but to leave the currency string as a currency string as input but need to cast/convert it to a double to allow some mathematical operations.

Answer 1

I know you've found a solution to your question, I just wanted to recommend that maybe you look at the following more extensive jQuery plugin for International Number Formats:

International Number Formatter

Answer 2

You can try this

<script type="text/javascript">

var str="$1,112.12";
str = str.replace(",","");
str = str.replace("$","");
document.write(parseFloat(str));

</script>

Answer 3

Use a regex to remove the formating (dollar and comma), and use parseFloat to convert the string to a floating point number.`

var currency = "$1,100.00";
currency.replace(/[$,]+/g,"");
var result = parseFloat(currency) + .05;

Answer 4

Remove all non dot / digits:

var currency = "$1,100.00";
var number = Number(currency.replace(/[^0-9\.]+/g,""));