strips formatting and returns the underlying number · from google sheets · no excel equivalent · sheets: not yet compared

signature

TO_PURE_NUMBER(value)

returns: number

argument	required
value	required

examples

formula and result, taken from the engine's own test suite — every result below is asserted in CI, not written by hand.

errors

error values observed from the engine — each with a call that produces it.

error	produced by
#VALUE!	=TO_PURE_NUMBER("alpha")

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