numeric separators in javascript

Numeric Separators in JavaScript

Numeric Separators give us the ability to separate thousands with an underscore (_) in numeric literals.

How it’s useful❓

It makes our code more informative and readable.

let series = 10000;

Numeric Separators in javascript, enables underscore as a separator in numeric literals to improve readability.

Example:

let series = 1_00_00;

You can also use this for binary, octal, and hex numbers.

Binary Number: 👻

let series1 = 0b1010_0101_1001;
console.log(series1); // 2649

Octal Number: 👻

let series2 = 0o2_3_5_7;
console.log(series2); // 1263

Hex Number: 👻

let series3 = 0xA_B_C_D_E;
console.log(series3); // 703710

Few Limitation 🤦‍♀️

Below limitation snippet will throw SyntaxError

1. More than one underscore in a row is not allowed

let series1 = 100__000;

2. Can not be used after leading 0

let series2 = 0_1;

3. Not allowed at the end of numeric literals

let series3= 100_;

Browser Support 🎗

This feature has pretty good support in recent versions of browsers.

Check this out 👇

Reference 🧐

• Numeric Separators V8
• Browser Support

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