Well anyways, trying to figure out how to properly trim out US currency. I want to take out the $ and the , comma so that I can have my calculation work properly and not to have an error message about my string value.
If I understand your question right, simply don't use DollarFormat(). DollarFormat is a function that takes a raw integer or floating point value and puts in all the stuff you want to remove.
If I misinterprited your question you can use a regular expressing:
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