Best way to remove thousand separators from string amount using a regex

Question

I have variables that contain amounts and would like to remove the (US) thousand separators but also have to cover the scenario that there may be non-US formatted amounts wh

Answer 1

myVar = myVar.replace(/([.,])(\d\d\d\D|\d\d\d$)/g,'$2');

Removes the period . or comma , when used as a thousand separator.