Feature Request - lsparsenumber() to strip characters

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I am working on an old program that used OpenBlueDragon as its cfml engine. I do not know if it was made special, or something changed in Coldfusion after v8, but the lsparsenumber() would strip out letters from a number, and return the number.

I recall it being in the Coldfusion docs when I googled it, because that is how I found that it did that. And now, as I work through fixing this app, that seems to be the number 1 road block making this app work right.

I know I could

<cfset num = ReReplaceNoCase(num,"[^0-9.]","","ALL")>

But the amount of times lsparsenumber was used to clean a number… phew…

Anyway, am I just day dreaming of something that did not exist or was this changed sometime after v8?

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Lucee only strips out whitespace, anything else needs to be cleaned up as you are doing manually, as Lucee simply uses underlying java implementation.

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I’d call your function mask or remask so you could then add a whole range of masked variations in your code :wink:

usage: mask( type, value )

so mask('integer','10.1 weeks') would return 10

and mask('number','10.1 weeks') or mask('float',10.1 weeks')
would return 10.1

Or just drop your code in the context directory luce

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I have thought about putting it on my todo list, but at the moment all I have to do is use:

ReReplaceNoCase(num,"[^0-9.]","","ALL")