Node.JS/Javascript - casting string to integer is returning NaN when I wouldn't expect it to

Question

This is all in the context of a larger program, so Im going to try keep it simple, showing the offending lines only. I have an array of values that are numbers in string form a la "84", "32", etc.

Yet THIS line

console.log(unsolved.length + " " + unsolved[0] + " " + parseInt(unsolved[0]) + " " + parseInt("84"));

prints:

4 "84" NaN 84

"84" is the array element Im trying to parseInt! Yet it won't work unless I take it out of the context of an array and have it explicitly written. What's going on?

Answer 1

You can try removing the quotations from the string to be processed using this function:

function stripAlphaChars(source) { 
  var out = source.replace(/[^0-9]/g, ''); 

  return out; 
}

Also you should explicitly specify that you want to parse a base 10 number:

parseInt(unsolved[0], 10);