Re: FLASH: Formatting Numbers

[frank pichel]

I can only think of a convoluted, weird way:


Make a substring variable for each set of 3 numbers. (called 'millions',

etc.) And then write an if statement which checks for how many number places

there are - if the number can be any length.


Set Variable: "hundreds" = Substring (startnumber, 0, 3 )

...

If ("startnumber" < 1000)

...

Set Variable: "comma" = " ,"

Set Variable: "bignumber" =  (millions) & (comma) & (thousands) & (comma) &

(hundreds)


Is that any help?


frank pichel




> Hi all,

>

> I feel certain that there is a way to format large numbers in a variable

> text field with commas using ActionScript, but I can't seem to get my head

> around it.

>

> For example, I need the number 1000000 to read 1,000,000.

>

> Can anyone help?

>

> Thanks in advance!

> Jeff




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