Adding comma separator to INT datatype

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

Can't help but post Lowell's handywork.

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Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 2

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I am just going from what my Europe users have complained all along: The invoices/reports coming out of the "american" system when the currency is Euros, are difficult to read because of the decimal notation.
But thanks anyways.

I've lived and worked in Europe almost whole my life, and I never seen numbers formatted with dots!

Also I've worked with users around the world, and I never heard anyone wanting such format.

Europeans (as every one else I ever seen and worked with) use dot as decimal point and comma as thousand separator.

Check Excel. You cannot even create a format which uses dot's as thousand separator. Can you image what kind of response MS would have it was really required.

What I can say, you have very strange European users:hehe:

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Sean Pearce SSCoach Points: 15999 More actions · Answer 3

johnnycash (1/31/2013)
Countries where a comma "," is used to mark the radix point include:
...South Africa...

Wrong.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 4

Sean Pearce (2/1/2013)
johnnycash (1/31/2013)
Countries where a comma "," is used to mark the radix point include:
...South Africa...
Wrong.

Abrupt! How about a source?

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Sean Pearce SSCoach Points: 15999 More actions · Answer 5

ChrisM@Work (2/1/2013)
Sean Pearce (2/1/2013)
johnnycash (1/31/2013)
Countries where a comma "," is used to mark the radix point include:
...South Africa...
Wrong.
Abrupt! How about a source?

Thanks, I failed at Google and hoped everyone would just take my word for it.

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246993 More actions · Answer 6

Thanks, I failed at Google and hoped everyone would just take my word for it.

Not in this forum! 😉

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

Well, hopefully people will take my word for it...

We used to use , as the decimal marker, but that practice stopped many years ago (while I was still at school).

Numbers in South Africa are written as 123,456,789.00 or 123 456 789.00

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crmitchell SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4557 More actions · Answer 8

johnnycash (1/30/2013)
Hello to all gurus here!
Please excuse the dumbness of this question, but if I have an INT value of 999999 and want to display it formatted with the thousand separator of my choice; which could be either the US standard of a comma "999,999"or the European standard of a dot "999.999"; how do I go about it?
Any direction/help provided will be highly appreciated!
Thanks!

As others have said do the formatting in the client not in the database. A properly written client application will use the localisation settings of your OS to display data in the appropriate format for the user's location and so someone in the UK, US Germany or most of Europe will see 999,999 whilst someone in France (I think) may see 999.999, someone in Australia may see 999 999 without you needing to worry about it.