Re: FLASH: Formatting Numbers

[Helen Triolo]

Jeffrey et al,


Sorry for beating a dead horse, but I thought of a much better way to do

the formatting and posted it again at

http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/formatmillions.html  It works for any

size number (tens, billions, whatever) and makes use of 2 things unique

to Flash:


1) there is no variable typing, so you can do string functions on a

number without converting back and forth between integer and character,

and


2) even though there is no mod function, you can find multiples of n by

checking for int(number/n)=number/n, because int always truncates


Regards,

Helen

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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.


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