Digit Separators

[JohnLBevan]

Summary of the new feature / enhancement

Similar to what we now have in C#, it would be great to introduce digit separators to PowerShell, so we can enter numbers in a more legible way; e.g.

$myVar = 1_000_000

Today we can get away with converting a string as below; but this then makes our code culture dependent.

$myVar = [int]'1,000,000'

This relates to #13590 in that both are to do with formatting numbers for legibility; only this request is for formatting the input/code, whilst #13590 is for formatting the output.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

No response

[mklement0]

I like the idea, but, unfortunately, it looks like this was previously decided against (in the context of introducing support for [bigint] and binary number literals):

• Add Binary Parsing Support & Refactor TryGetNumberValue & ScanNumberHelper #7993 (comment)

[JohnLBevan]

Ah, thanks for digging that out @mklement0 ; sorry I'd not spotted befor opening this request. Closing as previously answered.