How to remove dollar format with regex

Question

I am trying to remove the dollar format from the string \'$1,109,889.23\'. I tried using a regular expression with:

\"[^\\\\d]\" 

but then I ge

Answer 1

You don't need a regex for this.

Just use lsParseCurrency:

numericValue = lsParseCurrency('$1,109,889.23'); writeOutput(numericValue);

Example on trycf.com yields:

1109889.23

As per Leigh's commment below... if yer locale is something that doesn't use , and . for the thousands and decimal separators (respectively)... make sure to specify the locale too, eg:

numericValue = lsParseCurrency('$1,109,889.23', 'en_us');