How to get number from a string with python [duplicate]

Question

i want to get the number from a string

Example:

a = '22,123 games'

Result:

result = 22123

Reputation Farmer · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-23 05:07:06Z

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First you need to find where the number is. I assume that it's before the first space, so

number = a[0 : a.find(' ')]

Then you have to remove commas:

noCommas = number.replace(',', '')

And then convert to int:

res = int(noCommas)

answered Feb 23, 2019 at 5:07

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