How do I put a coma here?

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#1

What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I want to do something like this, it’s hard to explain in words.

I want 5000 to turn into 5,000.
I want 20000 to turn into 20,000.

Of coruse, these aren’t specific numbers, I was just listing examples.

What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
I didn’t find one.

Any responses are appreciated! Please, let me know which function in lua I should use for this!

How to add a coma to a huge number?
#2

I’m not really sure what you mean, but you don’t have to put comas for numbers.

#3

It’s for the visual effect of it, it looks nicer in my opinion.

#4

Oh so like for text? (30 charrs)

#5

It’s very hard to explain what I’m trying to do, but basically, when a player gets 1000 or more money, the 1 and the zeros get seperated by a coma.

#6

Same would be for, let’s say 20000, the 20 would get seperated from the last three zeros

#7

Maybe do something like, for every three digits, place a coma after the third digit?

#8

That’s a good idea, but now I have to figure out how to do it. Well, I guess I’ll have to use tostring and do some string manipulation. sigh

Also, if anyone else has another solution, feel free to reply!

#9

String Manipulation

Tostrings

#10

What you’re trying to do is format the number so that every 3 digits are separated by a comma. Doing so should be fairly straight forward. Here’s a solution from stackoverflow: formatting - Format integer in Lua - Stack Overflow

function format_int(number)

  local i, j, minus, int, fraction = tostring(number):find('([-]?)(%d+)([.]?%d*)')

  -- reverse the int-string and append a comma to all blocks of 3 digits
  int = int:reverse():gsub("(%d%d%d)", "%1,")

  -- reverse the int-string back remove an optional comma and put the 
  -- optional minus and fractional part back
  return minus .. int:reverse():gsub("^,", "") .. fraction
end
#11

You mean something like this?
print(20, ",", 000)

#12

Thank you! Your solution worked flawlessly!

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