>Hi Hilmar,
>
>Not a good solution, what if the string is for instance "12,34e7abcde"? (Answer: 123400000,00)

Well, that is an interesting example - what to do with it would depend on what the expected answer in this case is. I mean, you might indeed have numbers in scientific notation at the beginning of a text-field.

>
>>If your number is at the beginning of the string, you can use val(). You may want to use transform() first, to replace comma with point.
>>
>>>Hi all
>>>
>>>I need to retrive from a string only the numeric characters, comma, and point
>>>like this,
>>>

>>>a="12,30asdfsdfs" i need a=12,30
>>>a="12.25rtrtrt11" i need a=12.25
>>>a="23,30        " i need a=24,30
>>>

>>>
>>>João Batista