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Ignore the percent symbol (%) in Source Text when using it for calculations
Hi Guys. I’m using the source text from a text layer to do some calculations. Everything works great when just using numbers as the input (for example “37”) but the system breaks when I input a percentage (for example “37%”).
Does anyone know if there is a way to only focus on the numbers in the source text or a way to ignore the percent symbol?
Thanks!
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5 Replies
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parseInt() will stop when it gets to a character that it can’t convert to a number. So if you do this:
txt = “37%”;
parseInt(txt,10);The result will be 37.
Dan
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Hi Dan. That worked like a charm. But I’ve run into another issue. What if I need it to say “37.25%” and include those decimal places?
I tried your expression on “37%” and it worked great (it created “37”) but when I tried it on “37.25%” it output “37” as well.
Thanks!
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For decimals, you need parseFloat():
txt = “37.25%”;
parseFloat(txt);Dan
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Fantastic. Works like a charm! Thank you very much!
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And in addition to this, in case if you need specific number of decimals, (like one, or four, or whatever), add .toFixed(x), where x will generate amount of decimal values.
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