javascript parseFloat '500,000' returns 500 when I need 500000

Question

How would it be a nice way of handling this?

I already thought on removing the comma and then parsing to float.

Do you know a better/cleaner way?

Th

Answer 1

You can use the string replace method, but not in a one liner as a regexp allows.

while(str.indexOf(',')!=-1)str= str.replace(',','');
parseFloat(str);

Or to make a single expression without a regexp=

return parseFloat(str.split(',').join(''));

I'd use the regexp.