Currency validation

You could use a regexp:

var regex  = /^\d+(?:\.\d{0,2})$/;var numStr = "123.20";if (regex.test(numStr))    alert("Number is valid");

If you're not looking to be as strict with the decimal places you might find it easier to use the unary (+) operator to cast to a number to check it's validity:

var numStr = "123.20";var numNum = +numStr; // gives 123.20

If the number string is invalid, it will return NaN (Not a Number), something you can test for easily:

var numStr = "ab123c";var numNum = +numStr;if (isNaN(numNum))    alert("numNum is not a number");

It will, of course, allow a user to add more decimal places but you can chop any extra off using number.toFixed(2) to round to 2 decimal places. parseFloat is much less strict with input and will pluck the first number it can find out of a string, as long as that string starts with a number, eg. parseFloat("123abc") would yield 123.

I built my answer from the accepted answer.

var regex = /^[1-9]\d*(((,\d{3}){1})?(\.\d{0,2})?)$/;

^[1-9] The number must start with 1-9
\d* The number can then have any number of any digits
(...)$ look at the next group from the end (...)$
(...)?(...)? Look for two groups optionally. The first is for the comma, the second is for the decimal.
(,\d{3}){1} Look for one occurance of a comma followed by exactly three digits
\.\d{0,2} Look for a decimal followed by zero, one, or two digits.

This regex works off of these rules:

• Valid values are numbers 0-9, comma and decimal point.

• If a customer enters more than one decimal point or more than one comma, the value is invalid and will not be accepted.

• Examples of invalid input values

  • 1.2.3
  • 1,2,4
• Examples of valid input values
  • 1.23
  • 1,000
  • 3967.
  • 23
  • 1.2
  • 999,999.99

An example can be seen here:http://jsfiddle.net/rat141312/Jpxu6/1/

UPDATE

by changing the [1-9] in the regex to [0-9] any number less than 1 can also be validated. Example: 0.42, 007

/[1-9]\d*(?:\.\d{0,2})?/[1-9] - must start with 1 to 9\d* - any number of other digits(?: )? - non capturing optional group\. - a decimal point\d{0,2} - 0 to 2 digits

does that work for you?or maybe parseFloat:

var float = parseFloat( input );