RE: FLASH: Formatting Numbers #2

[jwoodw - Jeffrey Woodward]

Hi folks,


Thanks to all that tried to help me out with the formatting question.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get any mathmatical solution to work.  Since

ActionScript doesn't have a modulus operator, I'm not sure that a

mathmatical solution is possible given that my number variable changes

depending upon an input variable.


I did finally get a variation of Frank Pichel's suggestion to work however

(Thanks Frank!).  I basically had to write a function as follows, where

/:totalSavings is my final number with "m" for "millions", "t" for

thousands, etc:


If (Length (/:totalSavings) = 4)

      Set Variable: "t" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 1, 1 )

      Set Variable: "h" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 2, 3)

      Set Variable: "/:totalSavings" = t & ", " & h

Else If (Length (/:totalSavings) = 5)

      Set Variable: "t" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 1, 2 )

      Set Variable: "h" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 3, 3 )

      Set Variable: "/:totalSavings" = t & ", " & h

Else If (Length (/:totalSavings) = 6)

      Set Variable: "t" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 1, 3 )

      Set Variable: "h" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 4, 3 )

      Set Variable: "/:totalSavings" = t & ", " & h

Else If (Length (/:totalSavings) = 7)

      Set Variable: "m" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 1, 1 )

      Set Variable: "t" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 2, 3 )

      Set Variable: "h" = Substring (/:totalSavings, 5, 3 )

      Set Variable: "/:totalSavings" = m & ", " & t & ", " & h


and so on, and so forth...


If anyone thinks of a better and/or easier way of doing this I'd sure like

to know about it.  Otherwise, thanks again for the thoughts and suggestions!


Jeff


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