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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <cljs@PointedEars.de>
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Subject: Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string?
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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.


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