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⁉️ How Not to Parse Numbers in JavaScript

Why use a proper locale-aware API to parse numbers when you can hand-roll a maze of string splits, separator swaps, and implicit type coercions that silently break on edge cases?

Remy Porter (The Daily WTF)
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