Indian short currency format in google sheets

Question

In google sheets, I am trying to display numbers in Indian 'short' format with lakhs and crore suffix as follows:

• Cell value: 1234, Display as 1.23K
• Cell value: 12345, Display as 12.35K
• Cell value: 123456, Display as 1.23L [L=lakh]
• Cell value: 1234567, Display as 12.35L
• Cell value: 12345678, Display as 1.23C [C=Crore]
• Cell value: 123456789, Display as 12.35C.

I have tried to modify this custom number format:

[<999950]0.0,"K";[<999950000]0.0,,"M";0.0,,,"B"

by Brook McEachern, but could not able to achieve my required format.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Answer 1

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indian separator system in B2:

=ARRAYFORMULA(REGEXREPLACE(REGEXREPLACE(SUBSTITUTE(FLATTEN(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(
 REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE(SUBSTITUTE(FLATTEN(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(IFERROR(
 REGEXEXTRACT(A2:A, REPT("(.)", IF(LEN(A2:A)=3, LEN(A2:A)-4, LEN(A2:A)-3))), "0"), 
 "select "&JOIN(",", "Col"&SORT(SEQUENCE(MAX(LEN(A2:A)-3)), 1, )))),,9^9)), " ", ), 
 "(.{2})", "$1,"), REPT("(.)", IF((LEN(A2:A)-3)+ROUNDDOWN((LEN(A2:A)-3)/2)<1, 1, 
 (LEN(A2:A)-3)+ROUNDDOWN((LEN(A2:A)-3)/2)))),
 "select "&JOIN(",", "Col"&SORT(SEQUENCE(MAX((LEN(A2:A)-3)+
 ROUNDDOWN((LEN(A2:A)-3)/2))), 1, )))),,9^9)), " ", ), "^,", )&","&IFNA(
 REGEXEXTRACT(A2:A, "...$"), IF(A2:A="",,TEXT(A2:A, "000"))), "^0,$", ))

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indian short currency in C2:

=ARRAYFORMULA(IFNA(ROUND(A2:A*VLOOKUP(LEN(A2:A), {SEQUENCE(19), 
 {1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 10^-5; 10^-5; 10^-7; 10^-7; 10^-9; 10^-9; 
  10^-11; 10^-11; 10^-13; 10^-13; 10^-15; 10^-15; 10^-17; 10^-17}}, 2, 1), 2)&" "&
 VLOOKUP(LEN(A2:A), {SEQUENCE(19), 
 {"Rp"; "Rp"; "Rp"; "Rp"; "Rp"; "L"; "L"; "Cr"; "Cr"; "Arab"; "Arab"; 
  "Kharab"; "Kharab"; "Nil"; "Nil"; "Padma"; "Padma"; "Shankh"; "Shankh"}}, 2, 1)))

• side note: ROUND is set to 2 decimal places. this can be set to 0, or ROUND can be completely removed, or it can be replaced by TRUNC if needed

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Answer 2

an alternative approach would be as follows...

indian separator system:

=INDEX(IF(IFERROR(N(ABS(A1:A*1)))>0, REGEXREPLACE(REGEXREPLACE(REGEXREPLACE(
 REPT(0, 50)&"×"&TEXT(A1:A, "0"), REPT("(..)", 24)&"(...)$", 
 JOIN(",", "$"&SEQUENCE(25))), "(.*×,?)", ), "-,", "-")&
 IFNA(REGEXEXTRACT(A1:A&"", "(\.\d{1})")), A1:A&""))

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indian short currency:

=INDEX(IF((IFERROR(N(ABS(A1:A*1)))>0)+(IF(ISBLANK(A1:A),,IFERROR(A1:A*1, 1)=0)), 
 REGEXREPLACE(TEXT(TRUNC(IFNA(A1:A*(10^-(
 VLOOKUP(LEN(TEXT(INT(ABS(A1:A*1)), "0")), 
 SEQUENCE(8, 1, 6, 2), 1)-1)), A1:A), 1), "0.#"), "(\.)$", )&" "&
 HLOOKUP(LEN(TEXT(INT(ABS(A1:A*1)), "0")), {0, SEQUENCE(1, 8, 4, 2); 
 SPLIT("Rp♦Rp♦L♦Cr♦Arab♦Kharab♦Nil♦Padma♦Shankh", "♦")} , 2), ""&A1:A))

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both indian systems combined:

=INDEX(IF((IFERROR(N(ABS(A1:A*1)))>0)+(IF(ISBLANK(A1:A),,IFERROR(A1:A*1, 1)=0)), 
 REGEXREPLACE(REGEXREPLACE(REGEXREPLACE(
 REPT(0, 50)&"×"&REGEXREPLACE(TEXT(TRUNC(IFNA(A1:A*(10^-(
 VLOOKUP(LEN(TEXT(INT(ABS(A1:A*1)), "0")), 
 SEQUENCE(8, 1, 6, 2), 1)-1)), A1:A), 1), "0"), "(\.)$", ), REPT("(..)", 24)&"(...)$", 
 JOIN(",", "$"&SEQUENCE(25))), "(.*×,?)", ), "-,", "-")&
 IFNA(REGEXEXTRACT(A1:A&"", "(\.\d{1})"))&" "&
 HLOOKUP(LEN(TEXT(INT(ABS(A1:A*1)), "0")), {0, SEQUENCE(1, 8, 4, 2); 
 SPLIT("Rp♦Rp♦L♦Cr♦Arab♦Kharab♦Nil♦Padma♦Shankh", "♦")} , 2), A1:A&""))

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• works with numeric numbers
• works with plain text numbers
• works with text
• works with empty cells
• works with negative values
• works with zeros
• works with scientific notations
• works with decimals
• works up to Shankh
• works up to 10^±50

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