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Idiom #173 Format a number with grouped thousands

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

require 'active_support/all'
1000.to_s(:delimited)

requires packages ruby-activesupport, ruby-bigdecimal and ruby-json
'1000'.reverse.scan(/.{1,3}/).join(',').reverse
'1000'.gsub(/\B(?=(...)*\b)/, ',')
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
printf("%'d\n", 1000);

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