correct number format detection separator - javascript

I have
var value = $120,90
var value = $1,209.00
currently I replace the first case with
value = value.replaceAll(",", ".").replaceAll("[^0-9.]*", "");
which gives me that I am looking for: the integer 12090
with the second case I run in a problem however like this. How can I solve this in Javascript?

You may modify you regexp.
value = value.replace(/,/g, ".").replace(/^\D|\.(?!\d*$)/g, "");
First will replace ',' to '.' and the 2nd replace NON-digit symbols in the beginning of the string and all dots EXCEPT the last one with the empty string. Then use parseFloat.
To be sure completely it's better to create a template for data input and don't allow users to enter values in an invalid format.

I cannot see how you can make an algorithm work unless you insist that everyone enters dollars and cents. The only option I can think of is to use locale to determine the number separator.

Could you use the answer from this thread?
How can I remove the decimal part from JavaScript number?
They use Math.floor() (round down), Math.ceil() (round up) or Math.round() (round to nearest integer).

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How can I handle float number correctly in JS?

In JS, I do have a float number which come from php as below:
var number = 2,206.00
In JS, I need to use parseFloat that number.
So I tried parseFloat(number), but its give only 2. So how can I get 2206.00 instead of 2?
Number.parseFloat is the same function object as globalThis.parseFloat.
If globalThis.parseFloat encounters a character other than:
a plus sign or,
a minus sign or,
a decimal point or,
an exponent (E or e)
...it returns the value up to that character, ignoring the invalid character and characters following it. A second decimal point also stops parsing.
So the following prints 2. And this seems to be your problem.
console.log(parseFloat('2,206.00')) // 2
Solution: use string manipulation to remove any commas from the number (really a String before parsing it.
console.log(parseFloat('2,206.00'.replaceAll(',', ''))) // 2206
If you need to store the value as a number but render it as a formatted string, you may need Number#toFixed to render the values after the decimal point:
console.log((2206).toFixed(2)) // '2206.00'
Final note: be careful about localization because some countries use commas for decimal points and decimal points for number grouping. As #t.niese says: store number values without localization, and then apply localization at the surface of your app. But that is a wider, more complicated topic.
You have to remove comma first and use parseFloat.
And about 2 decimal after dot, I see you use number_format($myNumber, 2) in PHP, so in JS, you use .toFixed(2).
var number = '2,206.00';
var result = parseFloat(number.replace(/,/g, '')).toFixed(2);
console.log(result);
First of all what you currently have most probably would trigger an Unexpected number error in JS.
It seems the generated value comes from the number_format() PHP function which returns a string. Moreover the var number variable should also be considered a string as we have a string format.
So firstly you should quote var number = '2,206.00' after that, you have to make the string float-like in order to parse it as float so we should replace , with empty string in order for the number to become 2206.00 number = number.replace(",",""). Lastly the parse should be done now in order to convert the float-like string to an actual float parseFloat(number).
Whole code:
var number = '2,206.00';
number.replace(",","");
number = parseFloat(number);
ok, basically you want a two decimal number after point like (20.03),
try this
parseFloat(number).toFixed(2)

problem with parsing numbers using JQuery

i have a Javascript file that calculates and parse the rows in a crm module called jobs.
I have function called recalculateSummary that calculate the price like this
I want it to show 3,578.00 in total like Line Total
The problem is the function parseFloat i think it ignores the ',' as i want if i write 3,578.00 the total should be 3,578.00.
I was able to achive this by removing parseFloat function and removing the ReplaceAll function but i got error when i add more rows the total value becomes 0.00.
recalculateSummary: function(){
var subtotal = 0;
$.each($('.row_line_total'), function(index,value){
lineTotal = $(value).html().replaceAll(',','.').replaceAll(' ','');
subtotal += parseFloat(lineTotal);
});
i know the question isn't clear but i need some help
Are trying to add toFixed(2) for calculation result?
I mean this:
$('.summary_subtotal').html($.number(subtotal,2));
->
$('.summary_subtotal').html($.number(subtotal.toFixed(2),2));
The reason is that by replacing the comma with the dot, parseFloat will interpret that as the decimal separator and so your number suddenly is a factor of 1000 smaller.
Take for example 3,578.00
Your code will grab that value as a string with $(value).html().
This is OK, although it would be better to do $(value).text() as
you are not really interested in HTML encoding, but plain text.
Then the code performs a disastrous replacement with
.replaceAll(",", "."). This will turn the string to "3.578.00"
(Not good!).
Finally the code converts this string to number with parseFloat.
The first dot is interpreted as decimal separator, not as thousands
separator (which it originally was). The second dot cannot be
interpreted as part of the number, and so parseFloat returns a
number with value 3.578. You probably have some other mechanics in
place to only display 2 decimal digits, so this value ends up on the
page as 3.58 (rounded).
In order to fix this problem, replace this:
lineTotal = $(value).html().replaceAll(',','.').replaceAll(' ','');
with:
lineTotal = $(value).text().replace(/[^.\d]/g, '');
Here we remove anything that is neither a dot (.), nor a digit (\d), using a regular expression: [^.\d]. So now the example value will become "3578.00" (the thousands separator is removed). parseFloat will turn this string into the number 3578. Your rendering mechanics will possibly render that with two decimals and a thousand separator as 3,578.00
All in all it is better to write your logic based on numeric variables and only use the DOM elements for output, not to read values from it (which are already formatted).

How to get the number from an input in JavaScript?

I have defined an input in HTML that represents a number. I need to parse the string in JavaScript to a number taking into consideration the different languages that will be entered by the user, for example: '1.34' in English will be written as '1,34' in French. parseFloat('1,344') will be return 1 in case we are in English standard.
You could probably find a library for it, but you can also pretty easily format the numbers into the wanted format yourself.
When you get a number from the input just convert it to string and then use the indexOf() function (http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_indexof.asp) to see if there's a comma or a dot in the number. It returns the position index of that element in a string so you can then replace with the wanted one to format the number. Position will be -1 if there is no dot/comma.
var num = 32.14;
var string = String(num);
var position = string.indexOf(".");
Hope this helps you.
If it's only those two representations you consider, then another easy solution is to always do
var floatNum = num.replace(/,/g,".");
and then just treat it like any float number.
Unless you really need it for other number systems I'd avoid using a library. Libraries tend to be too big for most projects to utilize properly in my opinion.

Converting HTML5 data type to number

Background: I would like to add and subtract numbers. I'm using HTML data-attributes. parseInt() and Number() aren't working as I thought they would be.
<div class="originalNumber" data-original-number="1,000,000">1,000,000</div>
<div class="bucket1" data-bucket="100,000">100,000</div>
<div class="bucket2" data-bucket="200,000">200,000</div>
<div class="bucket3" data-bucket="300,000">300,000</div>
I get the original number:
var getOriginal=$(".originalNumber").data("original-number");
console.log = 1,000,000
Now I would like to add and subtract from it. For example click bucket1 and 1,000,000 becomes 900,000 (1,000,000-100,000)
The problem is that I cannot turn the string into a number. I've tried using parseInt() and Number() to no avail.
var getOriginal=parseInt(getOriginal);
console.log(getOriginal);
returns 1
var getOriginal=Number(getOriginal);
console.log(getOriginal);
returns NaN
What am I missing here?
Try using a regex:
var getOriginalNumeric = parseInt(getOriginal.replace(/[^\d\.]/gi, ''));
This will strip out anything but digits and decimals.
You'll need to remove all the commas from the string containing the number before using parseInt().
This question has some information on the best ways to do that.
The problem is that a comma is interpreted as the decimal sign, this is standard for most countries, but the US (for example) uses periods as the decimal separator.
You'd need to replace the comma's:
getOriginal = parseInt(getOriginal.replace(/,/g, ""), 10);
Here's a live example: http://codepen.io/TheDutchCoder/pen/WbbzJL

Why does my textarea (HTML) value show 12,000,000.11 but after parseFloat the value is only 12?

I am attempting to develop a conversion website that takes a numeric value:
1,200.12
or
1.200,12
or
1200.12
or
1200,12
and have them all interpreted as 1200.12 by parseFloat.
I would also like decimals to be able to be interpreted.
0.123
or
0,123
as 0.123
through a textarea and then parseFloat the number in order to perform calculations.
These are the results I am getting:
textarea input = 12,000.12
value after parseFloat = 12
Does parseFloat not recognize the formatting of the numbers?
i get the same results with:
textarea input: 12.000,12
value after parseFloat = 12
How do I solve this problem? It would seem I need to strip out the commas since parseFloat doesn't read beyond them and with european notation strip the decimals and change the comma to a decimal for parseFloat to read the input correctly. Any ideas on how to solve this? My guess is I would need to identify the string input as either european or american decimal notation and then perform the required actions to prepare the string for parseFloat. How would I go about achieving that? All contributions are appreciated. Using HTML5 and Javascript. This is my first website so please go easy on me.
Best,
RP
To all contributors...Thank you! So far all the input has been sweet. I don't think we are going to be able to use a single replace statement to correctly strip both european and american notation so I think I should use REGEX somehow to determine the notation and then split into an if else statement to perform separate replace functions on each individual notation.
var input, trim;
input = "1.234,56" //string from textarea on page
if(/REGEX that determines American Notation/.test(input){
trim = input.replace(/\,/,"");//removes commas and leaves decimal point);
}
else(/REGEX that determine European Notation/.test(input)/){ //would qualify input here
rep = input.replace(/\./,"");//removes all decimal points);
trim = rep.replace(/\,/,"."//changes the remaining comma to a decimal);
}
//now either notation should be in the appropriate form to parse
number = parseFloat(trim);
Is this possible using REGEX? Please see my other question.
Regex - creating an input/textarea that correctly interprets numbers
One way would be to strip the comma signs, for example with:
.replace(",", "")
From there you should be able to parseFloat
Updated with fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/aLv74xpu/2/
Here is a solution that uses a regular expression to eliminate all commas and all periods, except the last one.
var number = "1,234.567.890";
var replaced = number.replace(/,|\.(?=.*\.)/g, "");
var result = parseFloat(replaced);
// result === 1234567.89
Alternatively, you can use this, which treats commas and periods identically, and ignores them all except for the last one.
var number = "12.345,67";
var replaced = number.replace(/[.,](?=.*[.,])/g, "").replace(",", ".");
var result = parseFloat(replaced);
// result === 12345.67
parseFloat parses its argument, a string, and returns a floating point
number. If it encounters a character other than a sign (+ or -),
numeral (0-9), a decimal point, or an exponent, it returns the value
up to that point and ignores that character and all succeeding
characters. Leading and trailing spaces are allowed.
From the good MDN network: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseFloat
So it is the expected behaviour of parseFloat

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