title: parseInt failing in IE
body: <p>Pretty self explanatory when you look at the following, but basically, a date string in a disabled field is pulled out.  I split it by the forward slash, and I have tried everything I can think of to parse it into a number, but nothing works?  I have been at this for hours.  Any thoughts?</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val();
  
  "‎8‎/‎6‎/‎2015"
  
  $('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().split('/')
  
  [
     0: "‎8‎",
     1: "‎6‎",
     2: "‎2015",
     length: 3
  ]
  
  $('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().split('/')[0]
  
  "‎8‎"
  
  parseInt($('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().split('/')[0])
  
  NaN
  
  parseInt($('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().toString().split('/')[0])
  
  NaN
  
  parseInt($('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().toString().split('/')[0].toString())
  
  NaN
  
  parseInt($('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().toString().split('/')[0].toString(),10)
  
  NaN
  
  parseInt($('input[id$="ChestImagingDay5"]').val().toString().split('/')[0].toString(),'10')
  
  NaN
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input name="ctl00$ctl00$cphMain$plFormContent$txtChestImagingDay5" type="text" id="cphMain_plFormContent_txtChestImagingDay5" disabled="disabled" class="aspNetDisabled classTarget" style="width:94px;"&gt;
  </code></pre>