Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string?

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Dr J R Stockton wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> posted:
>> Number(myString) will return NaN if there are any non-digits and non-dots
>> in myString, ignoring leading whitespace.
> 
> Trebly untrue, even disregarding the omissions of "decimal" and of
> trailing whitespace.

Pray tell.  Does Number(",") return NaN?  Does Number(" ,") return NaN?  
Does Number(" 42") return 42?

You have conveniently snipped the part of my posting that qualified this 
statement (without marking the omission).  You really are to be pitied if 
you think have to resort to such lame tricks to get attention.

> And, of course, those of the digits i v I V etc. which are in UniCode
> 0000-FFFF, and IIRC various even stranger digits, including \u261D.

Don't be silly.

PointedEars
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When all you know is jQuery, every problem looks $(olvable).

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how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? skrite <shawn@skrite.net> - 2012-11-16 09:12 -0800
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 07:10 +1100
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 13:51 +1100
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-17 15:37 +0100
      Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 08:28 +1100
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 01:02 +0100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 15:40 +1100
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-11-17 08:05 +0000
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-11-17 09:24 +0100
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-11-17 09:29 +0100
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-11-17 12:04 +0100
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2012-11-17 11:28 -0500
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 01:56 +0100
      Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1247@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-19 19:53 +0000
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-20 11:03 +1100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-20 01:50 +0100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1247@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-21 18:44 +0000
            Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-22 14:07 +1100
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-20 01:04 +0100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1247@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-21 19:00 +0000
      Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-11-20 02:10 +0100
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-20 21:58 +0100
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1247@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-21 19:09 +0000
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1246@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-17 21:08 +0000

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