From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T02:09:08+09:00
Subject: Re: format number with comma separators?

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 18:07, Warren Brown wrote:

> >> 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

But:

    irb(main):003:0> puts "-123456789.0123".gsub(/(\d)(?=\d{3}+(\.\d*)?$)/, '\1,')
    -123,456,789.0,123

Is that the expected behaviour? Which is the convention in the decimal part?

-- fxn