Problem 28. Counting Money

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Add the numbers given in the cell array of strings. The strings represent amounts of money using this notation: $99,999.99.

Example:

 Input a = {'$12,001.87','$0.04','$12,003,887.55','$0.32'};
 Output b is 12015889.78

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Alan Mackay on 6 Jul 2012

The test to see if this is correct doesn't work. If you just code 'b = 0' then it is always correct!

Ajay Pattassery on 15 Mar 2019

This is really cool problem.

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Solution 1801297

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Harley Butler on 30 Apr 2019

I get the correct answers for this, but the website refuses to tell me it is correct. Fix this dumb stuff.

Santosh Kasula on 1 May 2019

@Harley, MATLAB functions are case sensitive. Did you try lowercase sum?

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dymaxwell on 6 Sep 2018

In fact this problem can be solved by only using sscanf and str2num.

Solution 1201802

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Ahmed Abdelbasit on 31 May 2017

one of the hardest problems I've ever faced

Srishti Saha on 1 Apr 2018

enjoyed solving this

Solution 112422

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Cris Luengo on 14 Jul 2012

Hehe, improving on a cheat solution is always fun!

Slobodan Ilic on 20 Nov 2012

Nice one :)

Ned Gulley on 20 Nov 2012

Cute. Fixed the test suite.

Solution 107377

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Alan Mackay on 6 Jul 2012

The test for this problem is wrong!

Cris Luengo on 14 Jul 2012

Well, that was disappointing!

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