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

How about just doing a search and replace for , and $?

but if you're going to do it.

[^\d.]+

Answer 2

Would this RegEx work for you?

^\$

Answer 3

In Java:

String newString = oldString.replaceAll("$", "");

Answer 4

I am using ColdFusion. The [^\d.] works great as eldarerathis mentioned above.

   <cfset amt = '$1,109,889.23'>
   <cfset newAmt = ReReplace(amt, "[^\d.]", "","ALL") >
   <cfoutput>#newAmt#</cfoutput>

Answer 5

[\d,.]+ would give you the number part. Here is your example on Rubular.

Answer 6

Since $ is a metacharacter in regex (it means "end of string" or "end of line", depending on the current settings), it needs to be escaped to \$. But why use a regex at all if it's just one fixed character?