[Gambas-user] Convert a "currency" string to a number

[BB]

On 26/3/23 9:33 am, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> I would do something like this:
> cfloat(replace(right(sTotal, -1), ",", ""))
>
> However, I do not know how much there is variation in the string 
> format. You may need to use Trim() and take localization into account.
>
>
> Jussi
>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 12:39 AM BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:adamnt42 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     What's the best way to convert a string that looks like "$98,765" or
>     "$98,765.43" to an integer / float?
>
>     Or putting this another way, I want to test if the value is >
>     something
>     (like "sTotal > 50000"), what is the most efficient way to do this
>     check.
>
>     tia
>
>     bruce
>

Thanks Jussi,

I was was checking that I hadn't missed something introduced in the last 
years for such a conversion.

b

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