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Old 03-02-2010
printf formatting
Is there a way to make these 2 numbers - $482477.37 and $1875000.00

look like $482,477.37 and $1,875,000.00 with printf?
# 2  
Old 03-02-2010
This is depending on the setting of your locale. Try this within the shell (script):
Code:
printf "$%'.2f\n" 482477.37

# 3  
Old 03-03-2010
We can achieve in some other way like sed , perl , bash but there is no way to do this with the printf command.
# 4  
Old 03-03-2010
Bug
We can do it in php also using number_format() function.

Sample code:

Code:
<?php
$number = 482477.37;
$value = number_format($number,2);
echo "\$$value";
?>

# 5  
Old 03-03-2010
MySQL
There is no way to do this with the printf command.
See the following Example. Formate the numbers using SED

The Formate file contents is bellow.

file-name "Formate."
------------------------------------------
:loop
s/^([0-9]+)([0-9]{3}.*)/\1,\2/
t loop
------------------------------------------

command:
Code:
 sed -r -f Formate

Output:
482477.37
482,477.37
1875000.00
1,875,000.00

you can use the sed command
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