Delimiting thousandths..converting 12345678 to 12, 345, 678 for example

[Brian Yennie]

If you just need something for whole integers, how about something  
simple like:

function thousandsDelimit pNum
   	repeat with i=-1 down to (0 - length(pNum))
     		put char i of pNum before temp
     		if (i mod 3 = 0) then put comma before temp
   	end repeat
  	if (char 1 of temp is comma) then delete char 1 of temp
   	return temp
end thousandsDelimit

If you needed to work with decimals, you could call it with something  
like:

set the itemDelimiter to "."
put thousandsDelimit(item 1 of tNum) into item 1 of tNum

HTH,
Brian

> If there a built-in "thousandths delimit" function that takes a  
> number and inserts the appropriate delimiter (e.g. commas for  
> USA).  Alternately, does someone have an idea for a really fast and  
> efficient custom function that does it?  I have maybe a hundred  
> thousand numbers at a time to convert and cannot think of how to do  
> it reliably in less than a dozen lines of code.
>
> Corollary to this question is, any way to read user's system  
> preferences about which delimiter to use?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
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