Re: [Rapideuphoria-develop] Enhancing money() and number()

[Shawn P. <sha...@gm...>]

This was brought up before.  Isn't there a function that does something like
that already?  Somebody proposed something called format that would do what
print using does in BASIC.  One could extend printf to accept a dollar sign
and or comma inside the percentage sign so to keep the minus sign off
the dollar sign and to allow commas every three digits or in Asian countries
every four.

printf( 1, "$%.0f", { 13.00 } ) -- outputs $13 to the screen.
We could extend this to accept:
printf( 1, "$%,.0f", { 10000000 } ) -- $10,000,000
printf( 1, "$%_.0f", { 10000000 } )  -- $10_000_000
printf( 1, "%$.2f", { -104 } ) --  -$104.00

Using money is world portable.  So, if you are chopping off decimals, its
only the one extra mile to check to makesure there really is a decimal and
to use the decimal symbol that money() will use, which may be a comma.  If
you don't care just use printf.
Shawn Pringle

2009/1/12 Jeremy Cowgar <je...@co...>

> Well, don't blame me, blame Microsoft, Linux and Apple who disagree with
> you :-) It's their functions doing the formatting.
>
> Jeremy
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