Re: [Gnuplot-info] 12M? or 12 000 000? (not 12000000)

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:25:53 PDT Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 18:41:52 PDT Emanuel Berg wrote:
> > >> you might want to try "%0'.f" or "%'0.f" (whichever you
> > >> find easier to read).
> > >
> > > What does that apostrophe do?
> > 
> > Grouping. Don't know if that's supported or why it doesn't
> > work. But OK.
> 
> The thousands separator format is sensitive to the current locale.
> I do not know of any way to set is separately; only as one component
> of a full numerical locale.  Standard US practice does not use a special
> character for this purpose, so the standard US locale ignores the aposrophe
> in a format.  

A correction, sorry. 
I meant to say the standard "C" local does not use a special character
for the thousands separator.  That is the default for gnuplot.
en_US locale uses a comma.  fr_FR uses a space.

	Ethan

> Other locales do provide one, however.
> 
> Here is an example of how you can use this in gnuplot:
> Script:
> 
> A = 1234567.89 
> 
> set decimal locale 'en_US.UTF-8' 
> US = sprintf("%'.2f", A) 
> print "US format is ", US 
> 
> set decimal locale 'fr_FR.UTF-8' 
> FR = sprintf("%'.2f", A) 
> print "FR format is ", FR
> Output:
> 
> decimal_sign in locale is . 
> decimal_sign in locale is , 
> US format is  1,234,567.89 
> FR format is  1 234 567,89
> 
> 	Ethan
> 
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