Unglobalize currency in formatCurrency

Question

I am using formatCurrency to format currency values.

For example, I am using it to format 1000 into $1.000,00 using:

$(".money").formatCurrency({ region: currencyTypeCode });

I want to perform calculations on these values now. Is there any method in formatCurrency to 'unglobalize' this number from $1.000,00 to 1000.00?

I can write my own function but I wanted to see if I am overlooking some functionality that already existed.

Answer 1

It looks like toNumber() or asNumber() will do the trick for you. I'm not familiar with the plugin so you'll have to play with it but for "$1.000,00" I'd start with:

toNumber({decimalSymbol: "," , region: currencyTypeCode });

https://code.google.com/p/jquery-formatcurrency/wiki/Usage