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Force removal of scientific notation on formatnum
m (Fix again...) |
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return _x | return _x | ||
end | end | ||
--- Formats a number by inserting commas as thousand separators. | --- Formats a number by inserting commas as thousand separators. | ||
-- @param number (number or string) The number to format. | -- @param number (number or string) The number to format. | ||
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if tonumber(number) == nil then | if tonumber(number) == nil then | ||
return number | return number | ||
end | |||
while true do | -- Find out of the number is using scientific notation. | ||
-- If it is, convert it to a string and remove the trailing zeroes. | |||
local result = tostring(number) | |||
if result:find("[eE]") ~= nil then | |||
result = string.format("%.20f", number) | |||
result = result:gsub("%.?0*$", "") | |||
end | |||
while true do | |||
-- Format in blocks of 3 digits at a time until formatting is complete | |||
local k | |||
result, k = string.gsub(result, "^(-?%d+)(%d%d%d)", '%1,%2') | |||
if k == 0 then | |||
break | |||
end | end | ||
end | end | ||
return result | |||
end | end | ||