How to represent negative numbers with leading and trailing parentheses
In Accounting, it is common to represent negative numbers with leading and trailing parentheses.
For example, negative two hundred is displayed as "(200)"
Also, It incorporates a thousand comma separator. In the event that decimal values are absent, it appends ",00"; if present, it retains them. Furthermore, if there is only one decimal place after the comma, an additional zero is added for a more aesthetically pleasing format.
widget.transformPivot({ type: ['value'] }, function(metadata, cell) {
if (cell.value >= 0 || !cell.value) {
cell.content = '$' + formatNumber(cell.value);
cell.contentType = 'html';
} else {
cell.content = '$(' + formatNumber(-1 * cell.value) + ')';
cell.contentType = 'html';
}
});
function formatNumber(value) {
if (value === null || value === undefined) {
return '';
}
const formattedValue = value.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ',');
if (formattedValue.includes('.')) {
const decimalPart = formattedValue.split('.')[1];
if (decimalPart.length === 1) {
return formattedValue + '0';
} else {
return formattedValue;
}
} else {
return formattedValue + '.00';
}
}
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