Numeric Separators give us the ability to separate thousands with an underscore (_) in numeric literals.
How itβs usefulβ
It makes our code more informative and readable.
let series = 10000;
Numeric Separators in javascript, enables underscore as a separator in numeric literals to improve readability.
Example:
let series = 1_00_00;
You can also use this for binary, octal, and hex numbers.
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let series1 = 0b1010_0101_1001;
console.log(series1); // 2649
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let series2 = 0o2_3_5_7;
console.log(series2); // 1263
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let series3 = 0xA_B_C_D_E;
console.log(series3); // 703710
Few Limitation π€¦ββοΈ
Below limitation snippet will throw SyntaxError
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More than one underscore in a row is not allowed
let series1 = 100__000;
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Can not be used after leading 0
let series2 = 0_1;
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Not allowed at the end of numeric literals
let series3= 100_;
Browser Support π
This feature has pretty good support in recent versions of browsers.
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Top comments (2)
Usually you'd use them where you'd use commas, dots, or spaces, depending on region, in prose. So every 3 decimal digits in the thousand/million/billion convention (
10_000_000
), or every 2-3 in the thousand/crore/lakh convention (1_00_00_000
).For hex, delimiting every 2 digits splits neatly into bytes (
0xff_00_ff
), or for binary you could split into groups of 4 to give "nibbles" - half a byte, equivalent to 1 hex digit each (0b1010_1010
).wouldn't know about this until now!