package parse import "strconv" // NumericOnly extracts only digits and decimal points from a string and // returns the result as a float64. Returns 0 if parsing fails. func NumericOnly(in string) float64 { var out string for _, r := range in { if (r >= '0' && r <= '9') || r == '.' { out += string(r) } } val, err := strconv.ParseFloat(out, 64) if err != nil { return 0 } return val }