Number::parse() proposal

[Giovani-Freitag]

Are there plans to have a parsing helper in the Number class?

My app is located in pt_BR, and I usually need to use the NumberFormatter library to parse inputs like "10,50" to 10.5 before performing calculations. When I saw this new helper I thought it could help me in this task.

Currently, I have to do something like this in a lot of places:

$num = (new NumberFormatter(config('app.locale'), NumberFormatter::DECIMAL))
    ->parse($request->input('number'));

Using a helper, I could have something just like:

$num = Number::parse($request->input('number'));

If it's necessary to work with other formats, it would be possible with named parameters:

$num = Number::parse($request->input('number'), type: NumberFormatter::TYPE_INT32, locale: config('app.locale'));

If accessing constants from the NumberFormatter library is a problem, maybe there could be specific parses like:

$num = Number::parse($request->input('number'));
$num = Number::parseInt($request->input('number'));
$num = Number::parseFloat($request->input('number'));

It's my first post here, I hope it's on the right place 😅

[codespearhead]

Do you have the bandwidth to submit a PR with the suggested method?

[informagenie]

Hi,

I have just submitted a PR along these lines.