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Unexpected output of number format action for German number format

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Posted on by JoeTheOne1 8

Hello,

 

I'm using the format number action as follows:

 

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My desired output based on the format would be "1.200,00" but it returns the number 1200,0000000 as shown in the screenshot.

 

What's the matter here?

 

Best regards,

 Joe

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    jinivthakkar 4,187 on at

    @JoeTheOne1 This is strange but even I tried everything and it is not working 😞 

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    DamoBird365 8,942 Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @JoeTheOne1 

     

    I don't think power fx allows a comma instead of a decimal. You could achieve what you are looking for with a series of replaces and #,##0.00 as your format.

     

    replace(replace(replace(outputs('Format_number')?['body'],',','x'),'.',','),'x','.')

     

    note I have replaced the initial , to an x in order to prevent the original , being lost

     

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    Damien

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    JoeTheOne1 8 on at

    Hello @DamoBird365 ,


    Thank you for the workaround! It works.

     

    To MS / the Power Automate developers: The behaviour of this new function and that it does not accept a comma as a decimal is absolutely misleading to me, especially as you can even select a locale (and in Germany a comma is the decimal). Also, if you select one of the pre-defined formats like "1,234.00" it doesn't even give you a thousands separator and you need to input your own format using #... those things and workarounds take so much time for so little functionality, especially if you add the time to analyze & find out about the errors...

     

    Best regards,

     Jörg

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