How to convert a currency string to a double with

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

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 2

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 3

// "10.000.500,61 TL" price_to_number => 10000500.61

// "10000500.62" number_to_price => 10.000.500,62

JS FIDDLE: https://jsfiddle.net/Limitlessisa/oxhgd32c/

var price="10.000.500,61 TL";
document.getElementById("demo1").innerHTML = price_to_number(price);

var numberPrice="10000500.62";
document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML = number_to_price(numberPrice);

function price_to_number(v){
    if(!v){return 0;}
    v=v.split('.').join('');
    v=v.split(',').join('.');
    return Number(v.replace(/[^0-9.]/g, ""));
}

function number_to_price(v){
    if(v==0){return '0,00';}
    v=parseFloat(v);
    v=v.toFixed(2).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d\d\d)+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");
    v=v.split('.').join('*').split(',').join('.').split('*').join(',');
    return v;
}

Answer 4

This is my function. Works with all currencies..

function toFloat(num) {
    dotPos = num.indexOf('.');
    commaPos = num.indexOf(',');

    if (dotPos < 0)
        dotPos = 0;

    if (commaPos < 0)
        commaPos = 0;

    if ((dotPos > commaPos) && dotPos)
        sep = dotPos;
    else {
        if ((commaPos > dotPos) && commaPos)
            sep = commaPos;
        else
            sep = false;
    }

    if (sep == false)
        return parseFloat(num.replace(/[^\d]/g, ""));

    return parseFloat(
        num.substr(0, sep).replace(/[^\d]/g, "") + '.' + 
        num.substr(sep+1, num.length).replace(/[^0-9]/, "")
    );

}

Usage : toFloat("$1,100.00") or toFloat("1,100.00$")

Answer 5

    $ 150.00
    Fr. 150.00
    € 689.00

I have tested for above three currency symbols .You can do it for others also.

    var price = Fr. 150.00;
    var priceFloat = price.replace(/[^\d\.]/g, '');

Above regular expression will remove everything that is not a digit or a period.So You can get the string without currency symbol but in case of " Fr. 150.00 " if you console for output then you will get price as

    console.log('priceFloat : '+priceFloat);

    output will be like  priceFloat : .150.00

which is wrong so you check the index of "." then split that and get the proper result.

    if (priceFloat.indexOf('.') == 0) {
            priceFloat = parseFloat(priceFloat.split('.')[1]);
    }else{
            priceFloat = parseFloat(priceFloat);
    }

Answer 6

accounting.js is the way to go. I used it at a project and had very good experience using it.

accounting.formatMoney(4999.99, "€", 2, ".", ","); // €4.999,99
accounting.unformat("€ 1.000.000,00", ","); // 1000000

You can find it at GitHub