Animate Numbers in After Effects - How to add commas, decimals & symbols

This simple counter effect is great for telling a visual story when numbers are displayed on screen. So in this after effects tutorial I'll be showing you exactly how achieve this same effect and even how to create your own preset to save a tonne of time!!
Just follow along and unlock a new effect...
The expression you need:
num = value;
function addCommas(x) {
return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");
}
addCommas(num)
Big shout out to @ukramedia and @JustinOdisho for laying the foundations on this one.
Especially to ukramedia for his awesome tutorial here: • How to Add Automatic C...
But I found that in order to fully get the most out this effect (like changing how many decimal points you want or adding symbols) I had to do more research and trial and error.
But, it's your lucky day because you can skip all of that and have everything you need straight away to create this awesome effect!
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Super helpful! Thanks so much for the clear explanation! That said- have you ever thought to add placeholder zeros into the counter? If so how would you do that without messing up all the other lovely bits of code? (For example the number would read 000,045 or some such and count up from there?)

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[@trimpsuz]

To make the commas work with numbers that have 4 or more decimals you can edit the expression like so:
num = effect("Angle Control")("Angle").value.toFixed(4);
function addCommas(x) {
return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");
}
num = addCommas(num.toString().split('.')[0]) + "." + num.toString().split('.')[1];
"" + num + "";
This will only add commas to the whole numbers and the decimals will stay as they are, text in front and behind can be added inside of the quotation marks on the last line.

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num = " "+ effect("Angle Control")("Angle").value.toFixed(0) +"";
function addCommas(x) {
return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");
}
addCommas(num)
Final Text!

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Yep, just make sure you add an angle slider to your layer and you're right to go :) Thanks for this comment

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Thank you, this was really helpful. Do you know how can I add a editable number like this into a mogrt for premier users?

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