javascript string manipulation

**N Clements** · Jul 20 '05, 09:28 AM

Re: javascript string manipulation

Write and implement a function similar to the following:

function removeComma( val )
{
re = /,/gi;
return( val.replace( re, "" ));
}

Hope that helps.

N. Clements
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"YT" <yt@MAPSONfunky chickens.org> wrote in
news:xUbWa.933$ Jf3.10807@newsc ontent-01.sprint.ca:
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> Hello,
>
> Here's the situation:
> I have several fields split into 2 sections (Debt & Equity) on a form
> that should only take numerical values. The page is a mix of
> Javascript & ASP such that when the user visits the page, the initial
> values of the field are filled in by Session cookies. When the cursor
> leaves a field, the code checks to see if the entry is a number, and
> if it is not then it replaces it with a "0". Then it checks each field
> for empty entries and when it finds one, it replaces it with an "0".
> Then it totals up the entries in a sub-total and then totals up the
> two sub-totals.
>
> See the code below for details (should be self-explanatory).
>
> The goal is to modify the code to find out if the user has entered in
> a comma for one of the numbers. Ie. these are all dollar values, and
> as such when someone enters in 10,000 the code resets that field to a
> zero. what I'd like to do is to modify the code such that the ** check
> process looks for commas in each field AND removes them ** before
> number checking and blank entry checking.
>
>
> Can you help me?! Thanks in advance!!!!!
>
> yt
>
>
>
> CURRENT CODE:
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaS cript'>
> 
> </SCRIPT>
>
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