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  • Ruby

Idiom #173 Format a number with grouped thousands

Number will be formatted with a comma separator between every group of thousands.

'1000'.gsub(/\B(?=(...)*\b)/, ',')
'1000'.reverse.scan(/.{1,3}/).join(',').reverse
require 'active_support/all'
1000.to_s(:delimited)

requires packages ruby-activesupport, ruby-bigdecimal and ruby-json
import "golang.org/x/text/language"
import "golang.org/x/text/message"
p := message.NewPrinter(language.English)
s := p.Sprintf("%d\n", 1000)
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
printf("%'d\n", 1000);

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