{"id":214,"date":"2009-03-09T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2009-03-09T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T07:00:17","slug":"formating-numbers-with-commas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Formating Numbers with Commas"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"brush: as3; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ntrace(formatNum(1000));\r\ntrace(formatNum(10000000));\r\ntrace(formatNum(1000000.39485));\r\n\r\nfunction formatNum(num:Number):String {\r\n\tvar newStr:String = &quot;&quot;;\r\n\tvar str:String = num.toString();\r\n\t\r\n\tvar parts:Array = str.split(&quot;.&quot;);\r\n\tstr = parts&#x5B;0];\r\n\tvar end:String = (parts&#x5B;1]) ? &quot;.&quot; + parts&#x5B;1] : &quot;&quot;;\r\n\t\r\n\tvar i:int = str.length;\r\n\twhile(i-- &gt; 0){\r\n\t\t var char:String = str.charAt(i);\r\n\t\t if ((str.length - i) % 3 == 0){\r\n\t\t\tnewStr = &quot;,&quot; + char +newStr;\r\n\t\t }else{\r\n\t\t\tnewStr = char +  newStr; \r\n\t\t }\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn newStr + end;\r\n}\r\n\/*\r\noutputs:\r\n1,000\r\n10,000,000\r\n1,000,000.39485\r\n*\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The function formatNum() returns a string given a number argument &#8230; it adds commas where appropriate and takes into account decimal values. This is useful anywhere you need to display numbers over 1,000, in a game, in a calculator app etc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>trace(formatNum(1000)); trace(formatNum(10000000)); trace(formatNum(1000000.39485)); function formatNum(num:Number):String { var newStr:String = &quot;&quot;; var str:String = num.toString(); var parts:Array = str.split(&quot;.&quot;); str = parts&#x5B;0]; var end:String = (parts&#x5B;1]) ? &quot;.&quot; + parts&#x5B;1] : &quot;&quot;; var i:int = str.length; while(i&#8211; &gt; 0){ var char:String = str.charAt(i); if ((str.length &#8211; i) % 3 == 0){ newStr = &quot;,&quot; + char [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-string-manipulation","tag-actionscript","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}