Inserting a 1000 separator

Hi, I am building a table in which I need to insert numbers with a comman 1000 separator and two decimal points. For example: A=11201453.21 % should be A=1,1201,453.21 Any hint about how to do it? Best,

[Miroslav Balda]

Does the initial command have a fixed structure? How you say where to put dots? The resulting expression is not MATLAB command. If it has to be, The right side shot be enclosured in braces.

[joseph Frank]

yes the resulting expression is not a matlab command. I want to generate A={'1,1201,453.21'} in matlab

[Image Analyst]

My code gives close to that:

A=11201453.21
stringVersionOfA = CommaFormat(A)
cellVersionOfString = {stringVersionOfA}

In the command window:

A =
    11201453.21
stringVersionOfA =
11,201,453.21
cellVersionOfString = 
    '11,201,453.21'

Can you explain why your second group has 4 numbers (1201) instead of 3? And is that the reason why the code I posted earlier does not meet your requirements?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Here's a function I've used:

%=====================================================================
% Takes a number and inserts commas for the thousands separators.
function [commaFormattedString] = CommaFormat(value)
  % Split into integer part and fractional part.
  [integerPart, decimalPart]=strtok(num2str(value),'.'); 
  % Reverse the integer-part string.
  integerPart=integerPart(end:-1:1); 
  % Insert commas every third entry.
  integerPart=[sscanf(integerPart,'%c',[3,inf])' ... 
      repmat(',',ceil(length(integerPart)/3),1)]'; 
  integerPart=integerPart(:)'; 
  % Strip off any trailing commas.
  integerPart=deblank(integerPart(1:(end-1)));
  % Piece the integer part and fractional part back together again.
  commaFormattedString = [integerPart(end:-1:1) decimalPart];
  return; % CommaFormat

[Ursel Thomßen]

This works perfectly! I even exchanged perdiod and comma and can get German numberformat :-)

... As long as I enter numbers for value. Can anybody tell me, what do I need to change if I want to enter variables (1x1) for value?

Thank you in advance!

[Image Analyst]

Not sure what you want to enter. It can already take constants

[commaFormattedString] = CommaFormat(1234567)

or variables

value = 12345678;
[commaFormattedString] = CommaFormat(value)

Do you want to enter a string? If so, you have to convert it to a numerical value first.

value = str2double(str);

Answer 2

[Jan]

Please take the time to search in the forum at first before posting a new question:

Answers: 1000 separator

Answer 3

[Toshiaki Takeuchi]

Using pattern

vec = 123456789;
txt = string(vec);
pat1 = lookBehindBoundary(digitsPattern); % (?<=\d)
pat2 = asManyOfPattern(digitsPattern(3),1); % (\d{3})+
pat3 = lookAheadBoundary(pat2+lineBoundary("end")); % (?=(\d{3})+$)
pat4 = pat1+pat3; % (?<=\d)(?=(\d{3})+$)
replace(txt,pat4,",") 

ans = "123,456,789"

[Stephen23]

Using the OP's example value:

vec = 11201453.21;
txt = string(vec);
pat1 = lookBehindBoundary(digitsPattern); % (?<=\d)
pat2 = asManyOfPattern(digitsPattern(3),1); % (\d{3})+
pat3 = lookAheadBoundary(pat2+lineBoundary("end")); % (?=(\d{3})+$)
pat4 = pat1+pat3; % (?<=\d)(?=(\d{3})+$)
replace(txt,pat4,",") 

ans = "11201453.21"

Answer 4

[Joe]

For what it's worth, I know this is an older thread, but for anyone who comes across this down the road, I have a simple function which easily solved this guy's issue shortening the decimal which I integrated into Image Analyst's CommaFormat function:

function n=dec(m,d)
  format long g         % allows for longer decimal point arithmatic, g - cuts out trailing 0's
  m=m*10^d;             % shift decimal over to the right
  n=round(m)/10^d;      % round off extra decimal places, and shift decimal back left
endfunction

From this, all I added was a line before the integerPart and decimalParts are separated:

value = dec(value,2);                                     % new line, value has 2 remaining decimal digits
[integerPart, decimalPart]=strtok(num2str(value),'.');    % previously line 5

Hope this helps. It helped me.

[Walter Roberson]

"format long g" only affects the display of data using disp() or display() or by having an expression without a semi-colon. It also affects the display of table() variables and struct() . It never affects any computation.