in reply to Re^2: Extracting money from a double quoted string
in thread Extracting money from a double quoted string

Can you slurp into a single quote string?

The distinction between single quotes and double qoutes exists only with relation to string literals, i.e. strings that are in the source text of a script or module. I'd say that is the reason for our collective misunderstanding.

That said, as a "shot into the blue", do you perhaps eval your string?

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