From: x1 <caldridge@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T10:27:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatted output for numbers with comma's?

This would be a nice (ruby builtin) method :-)


  def commify( number, positions)
    positions = 3 if positions == nil
    puts number.to_s.reverse.gsub(/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/, '\1,').reverse
      ^ not very sure how it would be done but something similar to
("\d"*positions)
  end

  puts commify(12345) # 12,345
  puts commify(12345, 2) # 1,23,45



On 3/14/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 2:11 AM, Wink Saville wrote:
>
> > I was looking for a routine to convert a Number to a string with
> > comma's, is there a routine in the library for that?
>
> It's not very hard to roll up a solution:
>
>    def commify( number )
>      number.to_s.reverse.gsub(/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/, '\1,').reverse
>    end
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>
>