| Thousands separator
for Javascript numbers... |
joshie76
msg:1482631 | 4:33 pm on Oct 11, 2001 (gmt 0) |
take the following variables (numbers -> strings) 1000.00123
100000
12000000.00 Does anybody have a handy function that will convert them to thousand separated, like so? 1,000.00123
100,000
12,000,000.00 I've had a crack at this but my code just seems to be getting way overcomplicated (oh, and it doesn't work).
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ggrot
msg:1482632 | 6:24 pm on Oct 11, 2001 (gmt 0) |
I don't remember javascript syntax well, but how 'bout an algorithm: given string n which is your number and assumming: loop through the characters in n to find the first occurence of the '.' character. Record it's index in n. If you dont find it, set the index to be the length of n starting from the front of n, use the mod 3 of the index of the '.' minus index of the current character to determine if a comma should be inserted behind it. loop through n until you reach the '.' character.
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joshie76
msg:1482633 | 8:04 am on Oct 12, 2001 (gmt 0) |
I started writing a good old algo' but it ended up going on forever - then a colleague mentioned regular expressions to me. I took a book home and read up on them... it does make life a lot easier:
function addCommas( sValue )
{
var sRegExp = new RegExp('(-?[0-9]+)([0-9]{3})'); while(sRegExp.test(sValue)) {
sValue = sValue.replace(sRegExp, '$1,$2');
}
return sValue;
}
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