How to convert a currency string to a double with jQuery or Javascript?

Question

I have a text box that will have a currency string in it that I then need to convert that string to a double to perform some operations on it.

\"$1,1

Answer 1

You can try this

var str = "$1,112.12";
str = str.replace(",", "");
str = str.replace("$", "");
console.log(parseFloat(str));