Make numberFormat even better AND Cognitive Load

[prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org]

Curry,
This is great and best of all is the table of examples. This, in the dictionary, would have made my thrashing around with format, to get what In wanted a lot easier.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Apr 26, 2017, at 2:31 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Roland:
> 
>> I vote for the LC-NATIVE "Excel style" number format
>> (enhanced numberFormat in LC, not a new one, no
>> depreciation, but just different ways to achieve the same)
> 
> Excel number format is powerful and popular, that's for sure.
> 
> Richard:
> 
>> The Excel spec is a guide, but not an implementation.
>> Making that work robustly, flexibly, and sensibly within
>> LiveCode is a considerable design project.
> 
> SpreadLib supports a portion of the Excel number and date formatting, a good start on that effort and with some lessons learned. Excel does have its quirks like everything else.
> 
> Over time I've also chosen my own favorite "Curry Lite" formatting features, with the convenience of a single code for both positive and negative. I tried some tests with that style, and here are the results:
> 
> http://curryk.com/ck-num-format.png
> 
> <http://curryk.com/ck-num-format.png>
> 
> I can choose where to put a negative sign or parentheses, and include arbitrary text. Maybe I can break that out into a separate formatting library. Still want to try some of the crazier things that Excel can do. :)
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Curry Kenworthy
> 
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