Sum Numbers

Overview

What Sum Numbers does

Total the numbers found in selected text. It runs locally and handles the selected text without contacting a service.

Example

Action and outcome

Workflow

Use Sum Numbers

Follow these steps to total the numbers found in selected text with ActionClip.

1. Select the text you want to use.
2. Choose Sum Numbers from ActionClip.
3. Review the extracted result, then copy it where you need it.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

• Before you start: No setup required.
• Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

function run(selected_text) {
  var matches = selected_text.match(/[-+]?(?:\d{1,3}(?:,\d{3})+|\d+)(?:\.\d+)?/g) || [];
  if (matches.length === 0) return "No numbers found.";
  var precision = 0;
  var total = matches.reduce(function (sum, raw) {
    var decimal = raw.match(/\.(\d+)$/);
    if (decimal) precision = Math.max(precision, decimal[1].length);
    return sum + Number(raw.replace(/,/g, ""));
  }, 0);
  if (!Number.isFinite(total)) return "The selected numbers are too large to total safely.";
  return total.toFixed(precision).replace(/\.0+$/, "").replace(/(\.\d*?)0+$/, "$1");
}