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Subject: RE: FLASH: Formatting Numbers
From: jwoodw - Jeffrey Woodward
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:32:57 +0100

Thanks Helen! Once again you've come through with a brilliant work-around.
I truly admire your ability to think "outside the box". I'd of never
thought of such an elegant solution. I need to pull out those old math
books and do some brushing up.

I guess the only problem left with this issue is to take care of numbers
that happen to come out as decimals, i.e. - .54321 - Would you use some more
"If" statements to handle this scenerio?

Thanks again for all your input!
Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Triolo [designerati-technica [dot] com (mailto:designerati-technica [dot] com)]
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 7:53 AM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: Formatting Numbers


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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helen triolo � http://i-technica.com � 301-424-6037

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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