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number-parsing

When you are receiving data from all over the world you might encounter problems while using parseFloat or parseInt. This library is here to help you handling all locales with one single piece of code.

Build status

Master :

Latest release :

Install

just run npm install number-parsing

Usage

var parser = require("number-parsing");
var a = parser("123'123.99USD"); // will return 123123.99
var b = parser("1234"); // will return 1234
var c = parser("123 123,777") // will return 123123.777
// and so on

Resolve ambiguities

Some notations are ambiguous. For example if you receive '123,123'. You have no clue if it means 123.123 or 123123. If you are dealing with strange locales which uses , as a thousand delimiter, then you might want to specify the affinity of the parser for some locale.

var parser = require("number-parsing");
var a = parser("123,123", {
    us : 0.75
    fr  : 0.25
} // will return 123123
var a = parser("123,123", {
    fr : 0.75
    us  : 0.25
} // will return 123.123

Building the tool from sources

Just run grunt build

Run unit tests

Just run grunt test

Contribute

Feel free to add more formats ./formats.coffee or add new tests (in the directory test/) You can also make suggestion about the main algorithm

Roadmap

Add a way to disable some formats (for example if you are sure you won't use a specific one)
Add a way to add new formats programmatically (if are parsing a non-standard format)
Add support for browser (and ad continuous intergration)

Usage no npm install needed!