Remove dollar sign and convert price to specified format

Question

I am having a string of this type :

String price="$34.56 - $98.45" or it can be simply "$34.56"

I want to convert this string to 34.56-98.45 and 34.56 respectively.

Whats best and easiest way to do it in Java . I was trying for some regex but could not come up.

@AvinashRaj Shouldn't that be `[\s$]`, to catch the space before the hyphen? — Biffen, Nov 22 '15 at 09:09
Possible duplicate of [Read/convert an InputStream to a String](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309424/read-convert-an-inputstream-to-a-string) — alexandresaiz, Nov 22 '15 at 09:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '15 at 09:35

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You can try with this regex:

String val=price.replaceAll("[^\\P{Punct}-.]+", "");
//[^\\P...] (negated character class of characters not having the property)

answered Nov 22 '15 at 09:35

Madushan Perera

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