Re: Thousands Separator
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:50:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Thousands Separator | ||
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Jennifer wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Jim Lucas wrote:
>> Could you explain the use of what you're describing/requesting?
>>
>> And how number_format would not work in its place.
>
> I'm talking about entering large numbers in the code. If I have a constant, e.g.
> $num = '123456789';
>
> it would be nice to enter it as:
> $num = '123_456_789';
>
> just to make it easier to read. As I mentioned, you can do that in Perl. The underscore takes
> the place of commas only for readability. It's not a deal breaker, but it sure would be nice!
> :)
Besides Perl, there are several other languages which allow such "digit
separators". Wikipedia has an article about it:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_literal#Digit_separators>.
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Christoph M. Becker