# Fix with regional formatting may affect your application

**URL:** <https://community.triggre.com/t/fix-with-regional-formatting-may-affect-your-application/235>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** application, designer\
**Created:** [February 6, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://community.triggre.com/t/fix-with-regional-formatting-may-affect-your-application/235 "2023-02-06T11:06:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://community.triggre.com/t/fix-with-regional-formatting-may-affect-your-application/235/1 "2023-02-06T11:06:12Z")

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In the most recent release we fixed an issue where the thousands-separator would not be applied when converting a number to text. This fix may have introduced a problem in your application, which we did foresee correctly. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may (have) cause(d).

**The problem**  
The problem occurs when using one of the following functions in a calculation action in a flow part:

- Combine A with B - where _A_ or _B_ is a number
- Make A a text - where _A_ is a number

In the below we assume US formatting (period as a decimal separator, and comma as a thousands separator). For EU formatting (comma as a decimal separator, and period as a thousands separator) the same problem applies, just with different separators.

The old behavior was that a number such as 1 million would be formatted as this (assuming 6 decimals): _1000000.000000_

After the fix, this would be formatted as follows: _1,000,000.000000_

This can cause a problem if you then use this text as a part of a text, or to count the number of characters for example. Most likely, if this affects your application, you use this number as part of a filename, or an invoice number for example.

**Solutions**  
The quickest way to solve this is to wrap the _Combine A with B_ or _Make A a text_ function in a _Remove text A from B_ function, replacing the thousands-separator with an empty text:

- Remove text , from ( Combine A with B )
- Remove text , from ( Make A a text )

Please reply to this post if you have any questions regarding your design or are hesitating how to solve the issue in your application if this affects you.