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Put Commas Into Long Integers

05.10.2005

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        By Lucas Carlson - http://tech.rufy.com/

class Integer
    alias _to_s to_s
    def to_s
        _to_s.reverse.gsub(/(\d{3})/, '\1,').chomp(",").reverse
    end
end

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Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:12pm

Two comments: 1 A three-digit negative does not quite work as desired "-,315" instead of "-315". 2 I have to use "inspect" instead of "_to_s"" else I'm getting something like "#"