Re: FLASH: Formatting Numbers

[Helen Triolo]

jwoodw - Jeffrey Woodward wrote:

> 

> 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?

> 

Would this work? (where x is the original number and m and t are Set

Variables):


m = int(x/1000000)                   m is the millions

t = int((x - m)/1000)                t is the thousands

m & "," & t & "," & x-m-t


I didn't try it so it might not be exactly right (not sure you can

concatenate digits and characters but Flash is pretty typeless, so I

believe you can), but it should be something like that.


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