Commas in text fields...

I have a couple fields where people enter some numbers and
then calculations are done (behind the scenes), and a resulting
number appears in a new field. I need to know how to get commas to
appear in the appropriate places (for instance - if someone's
result was 82746, I'd want it to appear as "82,746" as opposed to
"82746")...
Here is a link to download my .FLA that I am working on. The
code in question is on Frame 5. Thanks!:
http://al-i.anixter.com/TEMP/pie2.fla
--Hoffman

I didn't even think of negative numbers... And I wasn't
necessarily going
for shortness either. But, since you mentioned it. This is
both shorter, and
handles negative numbers:
function commatize(theString:String):String {
var numOut:String = "";
var l = (theString.indexOf(".") != -1) ?
theString.indexOf(".") :
theString.length;
numOut += theString.substr(l, theString.length - l);
while (l > 3) {
numOut = (theString.substr(l - 4, 1) != "-") ? "," +
theString.substr(l -
3, 3) + numOut : theString.substr(l - 3, 3) + numOut;
l -= 3;
return theString.substr(0, l) + numOut;
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