Format Number Values

[flash_joker]

I would like to format number values to include the thousand marks. e.g.: 1,001 not 1001. I do have a function that works when you minus values but not add. If somebody could help me with this problem it would be grate.

The following script works fine if minus a value but i need to add to the current value.

Thanks for your time.

a = 5000
b = 1
trace(format(a + b,true));

// The Function
function format (val:Number,thousandMark:Boolean){
var intVal = int(val); 
var tmp ="";
if (thousandMark){
// processing thousand marks
var vl = String(intVal).length;
var tm = Math.floor(vl/3);

var tmpNum=intVal;
var mk="";
if (tm > 0){
for (i=0;i<=tm;i++){
i>0?mk=",":mk="";
if (tmpNum%1000!=0){
tmp = tmpNum%1000 add mk add tmp;
}else{
if (i<tm) tmp = "000" add mk add tmp;
} 
tmpNum = Math.floor(tmpNum/1000);
trace("Parsed number: " + tmp);
}
}
}
return tmp
}

[MaxFarago]

Man, I reread your post over and over but I just don't know what you mean! I got the part about formatting commas into your numbers. Do you want them to become strings then? I also didn't understand the subtract/add part of your question.

Here's what I would do if i were converting numbers into strings, including the call:

var yourNum:Number = new Number (213141);
var numtoString:String = new String ();
var numLength:Number = yourNum.toString().length
numtoString = "";

if (numLength > 3)
{
    numtoString = commaCoder(yourNum);
    trace(numtoString);
}

function commaCoder(yourNum):String
{
    for (i=0; i < numLength; i++)
    {
        if(i%3 == 0 && i != 0)
            numtoString += ",";
        numtoString += yourNum.toString().charAt(i);
    }
    
    return numtoString;
}

[devPrez]

Originally Posted by MaxFarago

Man, I reread your post over and over but I just don't know what you mean! I got the part about formatting commas into your numbers. Do you want them to become strings then? I also didn't understand the subtract/add part of your question.

Here's what I would do if i were converting numbers into strings, including the call:

var yourNum:Number = new Number (213141);
var numtoString:String = new String ();
var numLength:Number = yourNum.toString().length
numtoString = "";

if (numLength > 3)
{
    numtoString = commaCoder(yourNum);
    trace(numtoString);
}

function commaCoder(yourNum):String
{
    for (i=0; i < numLength; i++)
    {
        if(i%3 == 0 && i != 0)
            numtoString += ",";
        numtoString += yourNum.toString().charAt(i);
    }
    
    return numtoString;
}

Good code but you forgot one thing - you want to count your 3 places from the rear, not from the front. so while this happens to work well with 6,9, or 12 digit numbers, to format for all, such as millions, you must count from the back so i modified one line of code to create the new function:

function commaCoder(yourNum):String {
	//var yourNum:Number = new Number();
	var numtoString:String = new String();
	var numLength:Number = yourNum.toString().length;
	numtoString = "";


	for (i=0; i<numLength; i++) { 
		if ((numLength-i)%3 == 0 && i != 0) {
			numtoString += ",";
		}
		numtoString += yourNum.toString().charAt(i);
		trace(numtoString);
	}
	return numtoString;
}

All i did was change

if (i%3 == 0 && i != 0) {

to

if ((numLength-i)%3 == 0 && i != 0) {

and this works great - thanks!