Comma Separated Number

JQuery plugin to convert any text input to a number input with comma separate display.
Additionally it allows for certain characters to be entered as shortcuts for numbers.
For example, if the user types in 1k it is converted to 1,000.
To get the value without the comma use the data-value attribute.

Basic usage

<input type="text" value="12k>

$('input').commaSeparatedNumber()

// or pass config options
$('input').commaSeparatedNumber({
	allowedChars: "bmk",
	allowDecimals: true
})

parseFloat($('input').data('value')) // 12000

Options

Option	Description	Possible values	Default
allowedChars	String of allowed chars which are auto replaced with numbers	strings made up of b, m, k	"bmk"
allowDecimal	Allow decimal numbers to be input	true, false	true
allowNegative	Allow negative numbers to be input	true, false	true
maxDecimals	Maximum digits allowed after the decimal point. (applicable only if allowDecial is true	int or null	null
distanceBetweenCommas	The number of digits after which a comma must be added	int	3

Note: The letter k, m & b are replaced with 000 (thousands), 000000 (millions) & 000000000 (billions) respectively.

Contributing

Please feel free to add to this project, specially if you can write tests.
I am not a JavaScript developer and can't get my tests running, but plugin works fine when tested manually.