extracting and pasting a part of string using javascript

Question

I have people inputting 125px and 125% I want to extract just 125 from this perform some calulation on it. 125 * 2 Then I want to add px or % as it was set before 250px and 250%

Answer 1

I'm guessing something like this should work:

//str is equal to your string
var num = str.substring(0,str.search(/[^0-9]/))/1;
var sub = str.substring(str.search(/[^0-9]/));
num=num*2;
var newstr = num+sub;

Answer 2

Emile uses parseFloat to get the number and replace to get rid of anything that isn't the unit:

function parse(prop){
    var p = parseFloat(prop),
        q = prop.replace(/^[\-\d\.]+/, '');

    ...
}

Then p is the number, and q is the unit.