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Joseph Alotta

'($1,925.46)' asNumber

Greetings,

I want to convert a String with parenthesis and dollar sign to a Number or Float.

'($1,925.46)’ asNumber

Is there something out of the box that does this, or do I have to write it myself, character by character?

Should I use a ReadStream?

Sincerely,

Joe.

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Ron Teitelbaum

RE: '($1,925.46)' asNumber

Hi Joe,

If you know the format is consistent and you don't really need much error handling then something like this would work

('($1,925.46)' reject: [:e | '($),' includes: e]) asNumber

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum

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> Greetings,
>
> I want to convert a String with parenthesis and dollar sign to a Number or
> Float.
>
> '($1,925.46)’ asNumber
>
> Is there something out of the box that does this, or do I have to write it
> myself, character by character?
>
> Should I use a ReadStream?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joe.
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Joseph Alotta

Re: '($1,925.46)' asNumber

Thanks, Ron. I needed to preserve the negative, so I append a minus sign, then use your snippet.
,

str := '($1,925.46)' .
('(*)' match: str ) ifTrue: [str := '-', str].
str := str reject: [:e | '($,)' includes: e].
num := str asNumber => -1925.46

Sincerely,

Joe.

Ron Teitelbaum

Re: '($1,925.46)' asNumber

From: Joseph Alotta
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 2:59 PM

Thanks, Ron. I needed to preserve the negative, so I append a minus sign, then use your snippet.

[Ron Teitelbaum] Excellent! Well done!

,

str := '($1,925.46)' .
('(*)' match: str ) ifTrue: [str := '-', str].
str := str reject: [:e | '($,)' includes: e].
num := str asNumber => -1925.46

Sincerely,

Joe.

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