EFT Payment FIle Format - How to make the ${getAmount(payment)} field into a standard numeric field without commas or currency signs

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****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ****** To make the

${getAmount(payment)}

field into a standard numeric field without commas or currency signs in the EFT Payment File Format, you can use the Freemarker built-in functions in the Advanced PDF/HTML templates. The

?number

built-in function can be used to convert a string to a number, but it will fail if the string contains non-numeric characters such as a currency symbol or commas. To remove these non-numeric characters, you can use the

?replace

built-in function with a regular expression. Here is an example:

freemarker
${getAmount(payment)?replace('[^\\d.]','','r')?number}

This will replace all non-numeric characters (except the decimal point) with nothing, effectively removing them from the string. Then it converts the resulting string to a number. Please note that this solution assumes that the

getAmount(payment)

function returns a string that represents a number, possibly with a currency symbol and/or commas. If this is not the case, you may need to adjust the regular expression or use additional Freemarker built-in functions to preprocess the string before converting it to a number.