Http and transformationrule

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1

I’m testing a new controller which can report a temperature over http.
The manual query gives me the following result (no xml):

26.8 C

This is the item definition I use:

Number Webtemp “Room Temperature [%.1f °C]” (Temperatures)
{ http=“<[http://192.168.5.236/gett1.cgi:30000]” }

Please advise on the right transformationrule which will extract the actual temperature value.

Thanks!

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Number Webtemp "Room Temperature [%.1f °C]" (Temperatures) 
{ http="<[http://192.168.5.236/gett1.cgi:30000:JS(numonly.js)]" }

You can use this JavaScript transform/numonly.js:

(function(num) {
  return num.replace(/[^\d.-]/g,'');
})(input)
3

It works, thank you!
I wonder whether it is preferable to REGEX?

4

I don’t know if REGEX can substitute or only just extract, but whatever is easy and works!

5

From my perspective this should work as a transformationrule but it doesn’t:

REGEX(.*?([0-9]+\.[0-9]).*)

but it works without backslash!