Question

What can I use to convert this string into a number? "$148,326.00"

I am guessing that I need to explode it and take the dollar sign off, and then use parseFloat()? Would that be the wisest way?

This is how I am getting the number:

var homestead = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("sc2cash");
document.getElementById('num1').innerHTML = homestead[1].textContent;

Answer 1

You need to remove the dollar signs and commas, (string replace), then convert to a float value

Try this:

parseFloat('$148,326.00'.replace(/\$|,/g, ''))

See: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parseFloat.asp

Or: http://www.bradino.com/javascript/string-replace/

To handle other currency symbols you could use the following instead (which will remove all non numeric values (excluding a . and -)):

parseFloat('$148,326.00'.replace(/[^0-9.-]+/g, ''))