decimal point or comma

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and different countries group digits in different ways, too. many countries group decimal digits in 4s, while India and Pakistan group by 2s after an initial group of 3.

if you look more closely at my code you can see that it bases things on what is already. i could do more of that as needed. line 1 gets the character used for decimal points so i can pass it to the .split() method. i did not see an i18n way to do that split.