numeric-quantity
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Converts a string to a number. The string can include mixed numbers or vulgar fractions.
For the inverse operation (converting a number to an imperial measurement), check out format-quantity.
For a more complete solution to parsing recipe ingredients, try parse-ingredient.
# npm
npm i numeric-quantity
# yarn
yarn add numeric-quantity
In the browser, available as a global function numericQuantity.
<script src="https://unpkg.com/numeric-quantity"></script>
<script>
console.log(numericQuantity('10 1/2')); // 10.5
</script>
import numericQuantity from 'numeric-quantity';
console.log(numericQuantity('1 1/2')); // 1.5
console.log(numericQuantity('2 2/3')); // 2.666
The return value will be NaN if the provided string does not resemble a number.
FAQs
Number parser with support for mixed numbers, vulgar fractions, and Roman numerals
The npm package numeric-quantity receives a total of 23,097 weekly downloads. As such, numeric-quantity popularity was classified as popular.
We found that numeric-quantity demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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