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

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Subject Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string?
Date Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:10:31 +0100
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Contrary to popular belief, the different approaches to string-to-number 
> conversion are _not_ equivalent:
> [...]
> Therefore, parseFloat(myString) is probably the best solution here.
> [...]

Thank you very much for your most informative answer. :) It clearly
showed, that my uncertainty about using +myString was appropriate, and
that better solutions to the problem at hand do exist (obviously no
"perfect" one, though).

FWIW: I've noticed a /minor/ (as it's not related to the OP's question)
omission in your explanations: all(?) of the conversion routines will
recognize a leading sign (+/-) and will ignore trailing whitespace.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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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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