Support thousands separator (, or . depending on locale) in PowerToys Run Calculator

[iamahumanbeing]

PowerToys Run should support the thousands separator when evaluating any arithmetic expression.

For example,

12,345 * 67

currently returns no results.

But

12345 * 67 returns

827115

This will be very useful because content in other places (such as web sites or excel spreadsheets) are often formatted with the thousands separator. When you copy and paste such content into the Run window, if it does not support the separator, a user will have to manually remove the separator before an expression can be evaluated.

The parser in PowerToys Run should be updated to support , or . (depending on the locale) for arithmetic expressions.

[enricogior]

Hi @iamahumanbeing
the tracking issue for this bug is #3367
Please add your comments there, closing this as duplicate.
Thanks.

[iamahumanbeing]

We are not talking about decimal separator but the thousands separator.

[enricogior]

@iamahumanbeing
fixing one will fix the other as well.