Comments on: Formatting Numbers in Flash for Commas http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/formatting-numbers-in-flash-for-commas/ Focused on Interactive Design, Development and Marketing Wed, 23 May 2012 11:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Winkyboy http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/formatting-numbers-in-flash-for-commas/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Winkyboy Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:50:06 +0000 http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/2007/09/14/formatting-numbers-in-flash-for-commas/#comment-480 Thanks. With a little conversion of extended characters to regular ones (like the fancy "" to regular quotes), this works nicely. Providing this form allows all the characters, here's this code converted into a function: private function commify(my_number:Number):String { // array in sections of 3 to separate with commas var strNumber:String = my_number.toString(); var dollar_array:Array = new Array(); var start:Number; var end:Number = strNumber.length; while (end > 0) { start = Math.max(end - 3, 0); dollar_array.unshift(strNumber.slice(start, end)); end = start; } // assign a comma delimited value from dollar_array return dollar_array.join(","); } Thanks. With a little conversion of extended characters to regular ones (like the fancy “” to regular quotes), this works nicely. Providing this form allows all the characters, here’s this code converted into a function:

private function commify(my_number:Number):String {
// array in sections of 3 to separate with commas
var strNumber:String = my_number.toString();
var dollar_array:Array = new Array();
var start:Number;
var end:Number = strNumber.length;

while (end > 0) {
start = Math.max(end – 3, 0);
dollar_array.unshift(strNumber.slice(start, end));
end = start;
}

// assign a comma delimited value from dollar_array
return dollar_array.join(“,”);
}

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