seperating unknown characters in string? 1

[Ovatvvon]

How would I take a string and not knowing the dynamic length, insert characters at specific spots. For example, say there is a counter on a web site that counts how many visitors have hit the page and add's one to the entry in the database. Now it's displayed on the page saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. What about when it hit's 1000 and I want to display a comma after the 1 so it is like "1,000", but stays like that when it hits 10,000, and what about a million so it is like: 1,000,000?

How can one specify the exact area's the commas are shown for any givin amount? -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[link9]

Do you really need a custom function that could handle anything, or would

formatNumber(someNumber)

do it for you? That will insert those commas for you.

Could work something up if you need, but just curious if that might solve your issue.


paul

 

[Ovatvvon]

hmmm, learn somthin new every day. hee hee. That specific function format's it to what appears to be a currency format. Is there a format for numbers such as inserting the comma for every 3rd character? -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[BigBadDave]

Try this :

<%
dim strString
strString = &quot;10000000000&quot;
%>
<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot; type=&quot;text/JavaScript&quot;>
<!--
var strValue = '<%= strString %>'
var objRegExp = new RegExp('(-?[0-9]+)([0-9]{3})');
function addCommas() {
while(objRegExp.test(strValue)) {
strValue = strValue.replace(objRegExp, '$1,$2');
}
return strValue;
}
//-->
</script>


<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot; type=&quot;text/JavaScript&quot;>
<!--
document.write(addCommas())
//-->
</script> Regards

Big Bad Dave

davidbyng@hotmail.com

 

[link9]

formatNumber(number,0)

gets it to no decimal places with commas....

formatCurrency() will do money.

Is that function putting a dollar sign or something?

 

[Ovatvvon]

perfect again Link9,
no dollar sign,but was entering it so the number 26 was formatted like 26.00

just figured it was currency, but you're right, there wasn't a dollar sign.

Am gonna have to re-go-over all the format options in vbscript. Thanks again! -Ovatvvon :-Q