Parsing numbers from a string

Hello all,

I’m trying to find a way to parse out some numbers from a potential string. Basically, I’m making a financial-based calculator, and the user could input something like

$45,509.30

and I’m trying to figure out how to extract everything but the period so I’m left with

45509.30

I found this help from Senocular: http://www.senocular.com/flash/actionscript.php?file=ActionScript_1.0/Prototypes/String/extractNumbers.as

But unfortunately, it’s AS1 and I can’t get it to work with my code…

Anyways, if anyone would be willing to help out an old vet, that’d be sweet :slight_smile: