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i am an australian unfortunately living in europe and, apart from them not getting my jokes here, they don’t understand the way i write amounts of money because i put a full stop where they put a comma and vice versa.

so when i write 1,234.56 what i mean here is 1.234,56. but if i write to the australian bank they have no idea what i mean by 1.234,56.

i am sure if i was smarter i could write a little extension snippet which would easily convert one to the other but i am not. if a smart person was reading this and they were prepared to help me out i would be eternally grateful.

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I will admit I asked ChatGPT to help. It works pretty well as a starter:

// #popclip
// name: Money Swap
// icon: iconify:noto-v1:money-mouth-face
// language: javascript

/**
 * Convert between Australian (1,234.56) and European (1.234,56)
 * number formats by swapping dots and commas appropriately.
 */
function swapMoneyFormat(text) {
  // Trim whitespace
  text = text.trim();

  // Patterns to detect formats
  const auPattern = /^[0-9]{1,3}(?:,[0-9]{3})*(?:\.[0-9]+)?$/;
  const euPattern = /^[0-9]{1,3}(?:\.[0-9]{3})*(?:,[0-9]+)?$/;

  if (auPattern.test(text)) {
    // AU → EU
    let [intPart, decPart] = text.split('.');
    // Replace thousands commas with dots
    intPart = intPart.replace(/,/g, '.');
    // Join with comma as decimal separator if present
    return decPart != null ? `${intPart},${decPart}` : intPart;
  }

  if (euPattern.test(text)) {
    // EU → AU
    let [intPart, decPart] = text.split(',');
    // Replace thousands dots with commas
    intPart = intPart.replace(/\./g, ',');
    // Join with dot as decimal separator if present
    return decPart != null ? `${intPart}.${decPart}` : intPart;
  }

  // If it doesn't match either, leave unchanged
  return text;
}

popclip.pasteText(swapMoneyFormat(popclip.input.text));

(The above block is an extension snippet — select it then click “Install Extension” in PopClip.)

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@nick you are a saint and you will go to heaven. thank you. and i will smile every time i click on the dorky icon which is saving me significant time and energy… again. thanks to you and popclip.