Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasteel!jbd
From: jbd@dasteel.UUCP (Jonathan Dasteel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Formatting large numbers (999,999,999)
Message-ID: <102@dasteel.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 90 18:27:16 GMT
References: <1881@zipeecs.umich.edu> <193@cvbnetPrime.COM>
Organization: Dasteel Software, Santa Monica CA
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In-reply-to: jsulliva@cvbnet.UUCP's message of 10 Apr 90 20:54:43 GMT

In article <193@cvbnetPrime.COM> jsulliva@cvbnet.UUCP (Jeff Sullivan, x4482 MS 14-13) writes:

	  Does anyone have a nice way to print out numbers with
	  the correct placement of commas?

	  For example:
	   2,147,483,648
	  instead of
	   2147483648	/* using printf("%10.0f",x); */
			   /*   where x is a double.    */

Try this (for integer):

		  char *intAddCommas( int i ) {
			  static char buf[64];
			  buf[31] = 0;
			  int len = 30;
			  int mod = 0;
			  if( !i ) {
				  strcpy( buf, "0" );
				  return buf;
			  }
			  while( i ) {
				  buf[len--] = (i % 10) + '0';
				  i /= 10;
				  mod++;
				  if( i && !(mod%3)) {
					  buf[len--] = ',';
				  }
			  }
			  return &buf[len+1];
		  }

or this (for float, s is formatted by sprintf(s,"%.*f",decimal,number)):

			 char *numAddCommas( char *s, int decimal ) {
				 static char buf[64];
				 buf[31] = 0;
				 int len = 30;
				 int mod = 0;
				 int sl = strlen( s) -1;
				 if( decimal )
					 decimal++;
				 while( decimal-- )
					 buf[len--] = s[sl--];
				 while( sl >= 0 ) {
					 buf[len--] = s[sl--];
					 mod++;
					 if( (sl>=0) && !(mod%3)) {
						 buf[len--] = ',';
					 }
				 }
				 return &buf[len+1];
			 }

Hope this helps.