Float and/or string formatting

General Discussion
1

Trying to format floats to the text property of a label. I am seeing examples for Python using numberFormat but this does not exist. Is there a namespace I need to import? Format example “{#,##0.00}” What is the best method to format a string or float in the script editor?

2

Click on the binding button next to the text property and use an expression binding, then put the following code in the expression area:

numberFormat({Path/To/Tag}, "#,##0.00")

Path/To/Tag is your tag path, obviously. And anything in the formatting that is a # is optional, places with 0’s will always be displayed.

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I am not writing to the label from a tag. I am pulling the text from a column in a table via script.

On “propertyChange” of the table
table = event.source.data
event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Label1’).text = str(table.getValueAt(0, ‘Col1’))

I was trying to format when writing back to the label.

I tried as your suggestion and used the expression binding to the label:
numberFormat(toFloat({Root Container.Label1.text}), “#,##0.00”)

This worked!