Recently I was working on a project where I had to take a number that represented a monetary value and display it as money. For example say I had a numeric variable that contained the value of 10000 and I needed it to display like money with the commas and dollar sign like this $10,000. So in other words I needed the string representation.\u00a0That is what this simple function that I am posting does. I have written it here in Flash ActionScript 3\u00a0as a static function of a class, but you could adapt it however you need to. Here is the code:<\/p>\n
public class Formatter\n{\n public static function formatMoney(val:int):String\n {\n var isNegative:Boolean = false;\n var moneyVal:String = val.toString();\n var len:uint;\n if(val < 0)\n {\n isNegative = true;\n moneyVal = moneyVal.replace(\/-\/, \"\");\n }\n len = moneyVal.length;\n for(var i:int=len; i>0; i-=3)\n {\n if(i == len)\n {\n continue;\n }\n var firstHalf:String = moneyVal.substring(0, i);\n var lastHalf:String = moneyVal.substring(i);\n moneyVal = firstHalf+\",\"+lastHalf;\n }\n if(isNegative)\n {\n return\"$-\"+moneyVal;\n }\n return \"$\"+moneyVal;\n }\n}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently I was working on a project where I had to take a number that represented a monetary value and display it as money. For example say I had a numeric variable that contained the value of 10000 and I needed it to display like money with the commas and dollar sign like this $10,000. … Continue reading “How to format a number as money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionscript","category-flash","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}