Add shorted number formatting
nskobelevs opened this issue · 2 comments
Issue type:
- ➕ Feature request
Short description:
A common use of a Display Panel is to display a number and in some cases (e.g. energy count) this numbers can get too large for the panel, impacting readability.
My suggestion is to add an operator to format numbers in a compact way.
Perhaps a second input specifying the number of decimal digits.
| Input | Output |
|---|---|
| 1,254 | 1.2K |
| 5,386,452 | 5.3M |
| 3,385,215,385 | 3.3B |
Java implements this natively since Java 12 which should make this a relatively easy feature to implement
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Locale;
public class CompactNumberFormatExample {
public static void main(String args[]) {
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCompactNumberInstance(
Locale.US, NumberFormat.Style.SHORT);
nf.setMinimumFractionDigits(3);
System.out.println("Result: " + nf.format(1254));
System.out.println("Result: " + nf.format(5386452));
System.out.println("Result: " + nf.format(3385215385L));
}
}Result: 1.254K
Result: 5.386M
Result: 3.385B
I've raised a PR for this at #1221
