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4 years ago No that isn't currently supported. A PR would be welcome :)
I won't be able to do this work any time in the near future as I'm a little over committed with other project but would be happy to provide some guidance as you go.
There are a couple of questions that would need to be answered. 1) what character do we us to represent the sign in the format. 'S' is already used. We could use a '-' char or is that a bad idea if someone wanted to explicitly place a '-' symbol in the format. The other question would be about supporting alternate -ve representations such as ($10.00) for -ve nos. color coding for -ve nos. 2) Making a change that is ideally backward compatible. This would mean that if no -ve symbol was included that current formats would work as they do now.
So maybe we need to support multiple formatters
e.g.
'#.00-'
'-#.00'
'-CCS#.00'
'CCS-#.00'
'CCS#.00-'
'(CCS#.00)'
'RCCS#.00'
'R-CCS#.00'
'R(CCS#.00)'The 'R' indicates to color code the text. This idea seems problematic as the application of color is dependent on the UI framework in use. The R probably won't work for flutter as you need to apply a text style to a specific widget. For terminal apps the R might work if we applied ansi color coding. My feeling is that color its probably a bad idea at this point.
andrewescutia
btrautmann
Is there a way to customize the location of the negative value sign '-'. By default it displays negative values as "$-11.99". But what Im looking for is "-$11.99". I currently dont see a documented way to format this.
Thanks!