On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:46:48 +0000, Mark E. Powell wrote:
> If there a built-in "thousandths delimit" function that takes a
> number and inserts the appropriate delimiter (e.g. commas for USA).
> Alternately, does someone have an idea for a really fast and
> efficient custom function that does it? I have maybe a hundred
> thousand numbers at a time to convert and cannot think of how to do
> it reliably in less than a dozen lines of code.
Here you go - this is based on a function that Mark Wieder created:
function formatThousands pNum,pSeparator
repeat with x = length(pNum)-3 to 3 step -3
put pSeparator before char x+1 of pNum
end repeat
return pNum
end formatThousands
To call it:
put formatThousands("10000000",",")
--> 10,000,000
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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