From ad7d80435a8e319ed5fe42fd6ae53dfa433dd222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benoit DUMONT <bdumont@cerberus-testing.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:40:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #2576 numeric comparaison support negative.

---
 .../src/main/java/org/cerberus/core/util/StringUtil.java | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/src/main/java/org/cerberus/core/util/StringUtil.java b/source/src/main/java/org/cerberus/core/util/StringUtil.java
index 08f1120f6..a6fa851cd 100644
--- a/source/src/main/java/org/cerberus/core/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/source/src/main/java/org/cerberus/core/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -128,14 +128,19 @@ public static boolean isBoolean(String str) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * This method just reformat a string in order to increase the change it can
+     * This method just reformat a string in order to increase the chance it can
      * get converted to float. For ex, it replace , with .
      */
     public static String prepareToNumeric(String str) {
-        String result = str.replaceAll("[^0-9.,]", "");
+        String result = str.replaceAll("[^0-9.,-]", "");
         if (result.contains(",")) {
             result = result.replace(",", ".");
         }
+        if (result.startsWith("-")) {
+            result = "-" + result.replace("-", "");
+        } else {
+            result = result.replace("-", "");
+        }
         int i = 0;
         while (nbChars(result, ".") > 1 && i++ < 100) {
             result = result.replaceFirst("\\.", "");