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

Building on the idea from @kennebec, if you want to make sure that the commas are correct, and you don't want to replace commas, you could try something like this:

function myParse(num) {
  var n2 = num.split(",")
  out = 0
  for(var i = 0; i < n2.length; i++) {
    out *= 1000;
    out += parseFloat(n2[i])
  }
  return out
}
alert(myParse("1,432,85"));
// Returns 1432085, as the comma is misplaced.

It may not be as fast, but you wanted alternatives :)