Re: Print a number with grouping in a European style

Would it not have been simpler to take any standard commify (perlfaq5 or the cookbook, etc.) and swap the comma and period?

I could understand the novelty if Europeans acutally used a different "grouping" such as 12.3.45.6.78.9,00

-- I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.

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Re: Re: Print a number with grouping in a European style by integral (Hermit) on Feb 08, 2003 at 19:33 UTC
I could have, but at the time I didn't actually think to look up the perl faq. But now I have, I notice that my algorithm is basically the same as the routine from Andrew Johnson, just with modifications to use map instead of a s///, to convert the radix point to a comma. Plus this has been turned into a one-liner (with only one statement), which while the examples in perlfaq could easily be turned into one-liners, they all require temporary variables, which I like to avoid (for no good reason). -- integral, resident of freenode's #perl	[reply]

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