From: Warren Brown <wkb@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T01:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: format number with comma separators?

>> Yet another regex solution:
>>
>> % ruby -e 'puts "456778904".gsub(/(.)(?=.{3}+$)/, %q(\1,))'
>> 456,778,904
>>
>> -- fxn
>>
>> .gsub(/(\d)(?=\d{3}+$)/, '\1,')
>
> That spurious line at the end uses a regex that works for negative
> numbers as well.

  If you want to allow a decimal point:

irb(main):001:0> puts "-123456789.01".gsub(/(\d)(?=\d{3}+(\.\d*)?$)/, '\1,')
-123,456,789.01

    - Warren Brown