convert a JavaScript string variable to decimal/money

Question

How can we convert a JavaScript string variable to decimal?

Is there a function such as:

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Answer 1

I made a little helper function to do this and catch all malformed data

function convertToPounds(str) { 
    var n = Number.parseFloat(str);
    if(!str || isNaN(n) || n < 0) return 0;
    return n.toFixed(2);
}

Demo is here