http://www.jamesraposa.com/index.cgi e dot dot dot - a mostly about the Internet weblog by James Raposa en http://www.jamesraposa.com/index.cgi/2008/05/13#auto___ease_your_technical_headaches_with_goodorient_and_datafeedfile_com <a href="http://www.GoodOrient.com">GoodOrient.com</a> has partnered with <a href="http://www.datafeedfile.com">DataFeedFile.com (DFF)</a> to provide you with all the shopping tools you&#39;ll need to take your site to the next level. Using DFF&#39;s tools you can now easily integrate a search engine and a price comparison engine into your site as well as display our entire product catalog similar to how we show products on the GoodOrient site and publish Coupons/Deals and Banners. The beauty of the DFF tools is ease of use. You do not have to know programming to use them. You can display all contents of Good Orient data feed without downloading, updating or programming. Never worry about updating data feeds ever again. DFF tools and services are provided for Good Orient affiliates at no charge. DFF receives compensation by substituting every 4th click from your website towards Good Orient&#39;s website. <a href="http://www.datafeedfile.com/affiliate/program_info-Good_Orient-12385">Click Here</a> for more information. Have a question? Ask DataFeedFile.com directly using DFF&#39;s <a href="http://www.datafeedfile.com/contact_data_feed_file.php#form">Contact Form</a> <br /><!--ttag:advertising, marketing, online marketing--> http://www.jamesraposa.com/index.cgi/2008/05/13#auto___number_formatting These two functions clean up and format numbers quite nicely. One function takes any decimal number, negative or positive, and formats it by adding commas every three digits. The other function strips any non-numeric characters from a string leaving you with a valid decimal number. It considers the minus sign and the period to be numeric and will not strip them unless the minus sign is not at the beginning of the number or there is more than one period. These functions make use of regular expressions to do the heavy lifting.<br /><br />Read more <a class="sw_sl" href="http://javascriptsource.com/forms/number-formatting.html" target="_blank">here</a><br /><!--ttag:javascript, programming, scripting-->