# AS3 - Add apostrophes to numbers

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-add-apostrophes-to-numbers/311792>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 16, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-add-apostrophes-to-numbers/311792 "2010-07-16T12:16:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![James2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@James2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/James2)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-add-apostrophes-to-numbers/311792/1 "2010-07-16T12:16:23Z")

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Hi  
I have dynamic text fields that contain numbers. For better readability I’d like to add apostrophes to them. Though, I also need the numbers for calculations, so probably I’ll have to remove the apostrophes whenever I need to.

Any easy way to achieve that, maybe even with Flash itself?