Believe the

format

method will get the user's preferred currency/locale rather than the record's. There is a searchable Currency (

currency

) record you can try: https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/srbrowser/Browser2017_2/script/record/currency.html

Unfortunately 'currencyformatsample' and 'symbolplacement' aren't available as search columns or search fields. That would have really helped. I think I've got it figured out another way though, I was thinking of it wrong, it is really number formatting that I want not currency formatting (other than the symbol placement) so there are a few libraries that handle this. I'm looking into those.