Number formatting with commas

Benchmark created by Prashant on

Description

to check the performance of regex over a native method Number.toLocaleString() and an array based implementation for number formatting in JavaScript.

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without regex
function formatNumber(num) {
  var decimalPart = '';
  num = num.toString();
  if (num.indexOf('.') != -1) {
    decimalPart = '.' + num.split('.')[1];
    num = parseInt(num.split('.')[0]);
  }
  var array = num.toString().split('');
  var index = -3;
  while (array.length + index > 0) {
    array.splice(index, 0, ',');
    index -= 4;
  }
  return array.join('') + decimalPart;
};
formatNumber(4343535353.53);
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with regex
function formatNumberRgx(num) {
  var parts = num.toString().split(".");
  parts[0] = parts[0].replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");
  return parts.join(".");
};
formatNumberRgx(4343535353.53);
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with locale string
var number = 4343535353.53;
number.toLocaleString();
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