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comma function for Indian number system...

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comma function for Indian number system...

comma function for Indian number system...

(OP)
Hi

Is there any shorter way to use a comma separator for Indian Number system?
its like ##,##,##,##,###.##. I have written the following code but its quite lengthy...
function comma(n){
if(length(n) <= 3 ){ n = n}else
if(length(n) == 4 ){ n = substr(n,1,1)","substr(n,2)}else
if(length(n) == 5 ){ n = substr(n,1,2)","substr(n,3)}else
if(length(n) == 6 ){ n = substr(n,1,1)","substr(n,2,2)","substr(n,4)}else
if(length(n) == 7 ){ n = substr(n,1,2)","substr(n,3,2)","substr(n,5)}else
if(length(n) == 8 ){ n = substr(n,1,1)","substr(n,2,2)","substr(n,4,2)","substr(n,6)}else
if(length(n) == 9 ){ n = substr(n,1,2)","substr(n,3,2)","substr(n,5,2)","substr(n,7)}else
if(length(n) == 10){ n = substr(n,1,1)","substr(n,2,2)","substr(n,4,2)","substr(n,6,2)","substr(n,8)}else
if(length(n) == 11){ n = substr(n,1,2)","substr(n,3,2)","substr(n,5,2)","substr(n,7,2)","substr(n,9)}else
if(length(n) == 12){ n = substr(n,1,1)","substr(n,2,2)","substr(n,4,2)","substr(n,6,2)","substr(n,8,2)","substr(n,10)}else
if(length(n) == 13){ n = substr(n,1,2)","substr(n,3,2)","substr(n,5,2)","substr(n,7,2)","substr(n,9,2)","substr(n,11)}else
n=n
return(n)

Thank you.

RE: comma function for Indian number system...

Hi

For integers this should do it for any size :

CODE --> Awk

function comma(n          , nn)
{
    while (n != nn = gensub(/([[:digit:]])([[:digit:]]{3}$|[[:digit:]]{2},)/, "\\1,\\2", 1, n)) {
        n = nn
    }
 
    return n
}

For fractional part I did not got the rule.

Feherke.
feherke.github.io

RE: comma function for Indian number system...

(OP)
Thank you very much...but...sorry! could you please explain the syntax. I have gone through string manipulation functions in gnu awk manual, but could not understand your syntax.

RE: comma function for Indian number system...

Hi

There is nothing special. Let us rewrite it abit :

CODE --> Awk

function comma(n          , new_n)
{
    new_n = gensub(/([[:digit:]])([[:digit:]]{3}$|[[:digit:]]{2},)/, "\\1,\\2", 1, n)

    while (n != new_n) {
        n = new_n

        new_n = gensub(/([[:digit:]])([[:digit:]]{3}$|[[:digit:]]{2},)/, "\\1,\\2", 1, n)
    }

    return n
}
  • We insert each comma one by one in a while loop.
  • The loop is repeated as long as another comma is added.
  • To know when no comma was added so is time to stop, we store the result of the modification attempt in a local variable new_n.
  • Each time the value was modifier, we assign the new_n to n, and repeat the modification attempt to obtain a fresh new_n.
  • The regular expression used in gensub() could be written shorter as /([0-9])([0-9]{3}$|[0-9]{2},)/ ( or in other languages even /(\d)(\d{3}$|\d{2},)/ ).
  • The regular expressions are matching the number like this :
    •       \1\2
       │╭┴╮
 1234567890
       │╰┬╯
       │ ╰────────────╮
  ╭────┴────╮  ╭──────┴──────╮
/([[:digit:]])([[:digit:]]{3}$|[[:digit:]]{2},)/
 
    •       \1\2
       │╭┴╮
     12345,67,890
       │╰┬╯
       │ ╰────────────────────────────╮
  ╭────┴────╮                  ╭──────┴──────╮
/([[:digit:]])([[:digit:]]{3}$|[[:digit:]]{2},)/

Feherke.
feherke.github.io

RE: comma function for Indian number system...

Hi

Thinking again, would be simpler and faster with a for loop and substr() :

CODE --> Awk

function comma(n          , i)
{
    for (i = index(n, ".") ? index(n, ".") - 3 : length(n) - 2; i > 1; i -= 2) {
        n = substr(n, 0, i - 1) "," substr(n, i)
    }

    return n
}

Feherke.
feherke.github.io

RE: comma function for Indian number system...

(OP)
Thank you so much.

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