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Tag: numeric

Advice on how to resolve an issue with extracting only numbers from a string using JavaScript

I’m new to stackoverflow and would appreciate some advice to help me solve this problem. I have two strings that I want to extract numbers from String 1 = “12.3,Name1,3,4,Name2,35,Name3” returns [12.3,3,4,35] Which is the required result. String 2 = “12.3,22,Q” returns [12.322] Which is the incorrect result, It should be [12.3,22] I have commented on my code with the

How can I check if a string is a valid number?

I’m hoping there’s something in the same conceptual space as the old VB6 IsNumeric() function? Answer 2nd October 2020: note that many bare-bones approaches are fraught with subtle bugs (eg. whitespace, implicit partial parsing, radix, coercion of arrays etc.) that many of the answers here fail to take into account. The following implementation might work for you, but note that

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