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Old 07-09-2013
A quick-and-dirty way might be adding "<html><pre>" to the beginning and </pre></html>" to the end since Outlook ought to happily parse any html it finds anywhere. This may look weird in other email clients.

You can put printf in backticks like any other command to capture its output. STRING=$(printf whatever) Some versions have more convenient ways but this method should work most places.
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Old 07-09-2013
I don't understand what you want. Do you want the code that puts floating point values into your array to put them into the array with three decimal places? Or, do you want the code that prints the array of strings to go through the string before printing it, look for strings of digits with a decimal point and round (or truncate) those values to three decimal places before printing the array of strings? Should ".000" be added to the end of other strings of decimal digits
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Old 07-09-2013
Is there a way to set the scale for this
Code:
'$((${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}-${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}))'

while inserting an element into array instead of manipulating the printf statement.

Not required to have ".000" at the end of other strings of decimal digits, I need the output to be rounded off to 2 or 3 places after decimal.

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I think got it not sure if there are loop holes and any better approach
Code:
ARR[$i]="Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}', 
Difference is: '`echo ${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}-${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} | bc `'"

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Old 07-09-2013
You cannot do floating point arithmetic in most shells, bc is a good option.
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