Question

I want to convert two strings to ints to be able to compare them.

The strings are timers so I basically want to convert as below:

timer1 = 00:00:14 // 14
timer2 = 00:00:25 // 25

Answer 1

Step one is to remove the colons:

var str1 = "00:00:14";
str1 = str1.replace (/:/g, "");

Step two is to take the remaining number and turn it into a number. parseInt will return 0 for a string like “000014”, so you can use parseFloat:

var result = parseFloat(str1);

Good luck!

UPDATE: I didn’t consider the base 10 problem… this would work if you simply wanted to compare which time was greater, but to do a more “proper” comparison of real times you might want to convert both to formal Date objects first.