Re: Re: Parse float from string

[samurai]

Unfortunately, that won't catch the period character. I would use transliteration, IF you know what characters you should ignore.

$string =~ y/A-Za-z //d;

That'll remove alphabeticals and spaces. However, you may have to specify more characters if there's more garbage in your $string's.

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[mpeppler]

Sorry if I misread - the original poster had a parseInt() sub defined...
To parse a float:

sub parseFloat {
   my $str = shift;
   $str =~ /([\d\.]+)/;
   return $1;
}

Michael

[lanthruster]

That is not going to work for: -11.10 11.10.11