Given that the decimal position and commas are for you and me and not the computer, I would set a field to all "0" and then start a loop on the right of each field and if the character is >= "0" and <= "9", move it to the next position in the output field. Decrement each pointer based upon whether you processed a digit or not and when the loop is done, pack the result. If you want binary, then convert the packed field to binary.
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