Javascript Regular Expressions - Replace non-numeric characters

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Published on 2010-03-31T17:23:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 17:33 UTC
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This works:

var.replace(/[^0-9]+/g, '');

That simple snippet will replace anything that is not a number with nothing.

But decimals are real too. So, I'm trying to figure out how to include a period.

I'm sure it's really simple, but my tests aren't working.

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