[Javascript] Force String to Float?

[Noah Sussman]

On 5/14/07, tedd <tedd at sperling.com> wrote:
> var one = document.autoSumForm.a1.value;
> var two = document.autoSumForm.d1.value;
> document.autoSumForm.t1.value = one + two;
>
> the result is not what I expect. Instead of getting 2 + 3 = 5, I get
> 2 + 3 = 23.
>
> So, how do I force a string to a float?

document.autoSumForm.t1.value = one*1 + two*1;


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