GML [solved] Adding commas into score?

[hdarren]

Hi. I want to add commas into my score. So instead of saying "3000000" it says "3,000,000". Is there an easy way of doing this automatically? Thank you.

 

[derpy_turtle]

The easiest way is to convert the number to a string. Then apply custom formatting to the string to add in the commas.

Ex, 3000000 would be 7 characters. This is what the code would look like to convert your example.

formatted_score_string =
string_char_at(1) + "," +
string_copy(score_string, 2, 3) + "," +
string_copy(score_string, 5, 3);

Here is a link to the GameMaker documentation on string functions.
https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/strings/index.html

 

[Dmi7ry]

/// num_separator(value, separator, digits)
// num_separator(12345678, "_", 3); // Result: 12_345_678

var value = string(round(argument0));
var sep = argument1;
var digits = argument2 - 1;

var res = "";

var cnt = 0;
for (var i=string_length(value); i>0; i--)
{
    res = string_char_at(value, i) + res;
    if cnt++ == digits and i > 1
    {
        cnt = 0;
        res = sep + res;
    }
}

return res;

 

[hdarren]

IT WORKED THANK YOU!

 

[Bapsilon]

@Dmi7ry
Very nice time saver, Thanks.

(I would have figured out how to do this myself... But it would likely have been in MANY more lines of code.)

 

[YellowAfterlife]

I did once write a tutorial about this specific thing too.

 

[Momoro]

@Dmi7ry
Very nice time saver, Thanks.

(I would have figured out how to do this myself... But it would likely have been in MANY more lines of code.)

Same.