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[infogulch]

Here is a simple one-liner regex/function that add thousands separators to the correct spots in any decimal number with no loops, no recursion, and no callouts:

You can specify your own group separator either when you call it or you can modify the value in the function definition to match your locale.

[sinkfaze]

Very nice!
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[Laszlo]

Cool! Maybe the regex can be simplified a bit, keeping the conditional idea:

[infogulch]

Laszlo: That's a good idea, I'll change it.

Thanks guys.
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[infogulch]

In response to the need shown in this thread, I decided to add an optional param for specifying your own seperator.

Updated.
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[Delusion]

great! thank you very much for this
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[Laszlo]

[TheGood]

Very elegant! Can you explain how the COMMIT and FAIL verbs work? I had a look at the PCRE docs but still can't wrap my head around it.

[Tuncay]

Thx for the function. I have also made a solution, but that function is gone away. How? Harddisk crash!!
Btw, very very elegant. I name you to king Thousand!
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[Laszlo]

At least in Win7 you can get the decimal and thousand separator of the user's locale, from the registry:

[infogulch]

Well I asked in irc://freenode.net/#regex and Billiard came up with a similar solution for this that doesn't require specifying the decimal character. Find it in the first post.

Instead of using COMMIT FAIL, it uses the \G anchor (which I didn't know existed :S). The \G anchor forces it to match either at the very beginning of the string or at the end of the previous match. Since a decimal separator won't match, it forces a fail at that point, regardless of what kind of decimal separator it is.

Laszlo: I figured one could easily get the values from the registry, but I'm saying it's out of the scope of this function. Thanks for the info though; now if someone does want to make a locale-specific ThousandsSep function, they have the resources right here to do it.
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[Zod]

Wonder:

would it be possible to strip word characters easily?
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[infogulch]

Zod: by "strip word characters" I assume you're talking about non-numeric characters in the string with the number.

In that case I would instead suggest that you extract out all the numbers, add thousands separators to them with this function, then replace them in the original string or some similar combination.
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[Zod]

yea was just hoping for one step instead of 2
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