How to avoid scientific notation for large numbers in JavaScript?

Question

JavaScript converts a large INT to scientific notation when the number becomes large. How can I prevent this from happening?

Answer 1

Busting out the regular expressions. This has no precision issues and is not a lot of code.

function toPlainString(num) {
  return (''+ +num).replace(/(-?)(\d*)\.?(\d+)e([+-]\d+)/,
    function(a,b,c,d,e) {
      return e < 0
        ? b + '0.' + Array(1-e-c.length).join(0) + c + d
        : b + c + d + Array(e-d.length+1).join(0);
    });
}

console.log(toPlainString(12345e+12));
console.log(toPlainString(12345e+24));
console.log(toPlainString(-12345e+24));
console.log(toPlainString(12345e-12));
console.log(toPlainString(123e-12));
console.log(toPlainString(-123e-12));
console.log(toPlainString(-123.45e-56));
console.log(toPlainString('1e-8'));
console.log(toPlainString('1.0e-8'));