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gregorami YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	convert part of string to numbers Jan 16th, 2007, 3:09am   Hi all, I am retreiving data that comes into processing like this "$4.75" How do I split up 4.75 from $ and turn 4.75 into a float? I looked at: http://mobile.processing.org/reference/reference.php?name=split -but since the $ sign is not seperate from 4.75, then how can I split those two? Thanks, GregoRami

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: convert part of string to numbers Reply #1 - Jan 16th, 2007, 3:49am   Code: String price = "$100.20"; String sub = price.substring( 1, price.length() ); println( sub ); // Java way float fprice = Float.parseFloat( sub ); println( fprice ); // or Processing way: println( float( sub ) ); F