If you just need something for whole integers, how about something
simple like:
function thousandsDelimit pNum
repeat with i=-1 down to (0 - length(pNum))
put char i of pNum before temp
if (i mod 3 = 0) then put comma before temp
end repeat
if (char 1 of temp is comma) then delete char 1 of temp
return temp
end thousandsDelimit
If you needed to work with decimals, you could call it with something
like:
set the itemDelimiter to "."
put thousandsDelimit(item 1 of tNum) into item 1 of tNum
HTH,
Brian
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.
Corollary to this question is, any way to read user's system
preferences about which delimiter to use?
Thanks
Mark
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