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RE: Formating numbers using commas?

• Posted by Don Phillips <Graebel at hotmail.com> Jul 01, 2002
• 570 views

> Any ideas or tips would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!

Ahh I just love these little gems.  Really gives the brain a good decent 
workout and hones the problem solving skill set.  Well (of course) I 
just had to poke around with it and this is what I came up with...

Did not do any comparisons (speed or otherwise) to those algos already 
posted.

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function AddCommas( atom above )
    atom below
    sequence answer

    answer = {}
    while above do
        below = remainder( above, 1000 )
        above = floor( above / 1000 )
        if above then
            answer = sprintf(",%03d",{below}) & answer
        end if
    end while
    return( sprint(below) & answer )
end function

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Enjoy!
Don