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Format Jekyll/Liquid number needing commas included


I'm trying to format numbers that are custom variables in Jekyll's Front Matter to use a comma after every third digit. Ex. 1,000,000. My number is declared in the Front Matter like this:

---
my_number: 1000000
---

It's then retrieved on the page like this:

{{ page.my_number }}

As expected, the output is 1000000. There's plenty of Jekyll documentation about date formatting but little to none on numeric formatting. Is there a way to format that to 1,000,0000 without the need for a Jekyll plugin?


Solution

  • Since Jekyll doesn't format number numbers to use commas without assistance from plugin I opted to reformat the numeric values using JavaScript.

    function numberWithCommas(value) {
        return value.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ',');
    }
    
    function updateNumericValues() {
        const myNumber = document.querySelectorAll('.myNumber');
        myNumber.forEach((e) => {
            const numericValue = e.textContent;
            const formattedValue = numberWithCommas(numericValue);
            e.textContent = formattedValue;
        });
     }
    
     updateNumericValues();