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try this $num=25000 $num =~ s/0/\,0/; yak

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Re: Re: Formatting number
by sgifford (Prior) on Jul 31, 2003 at 19:42 UTC
    That will only work if the first zero to occur is exactly where the comma should go: 
    $ perl -e '$num=10; $num =~ s/0/\,0/; print $num,"\n";'
1,0
$ perl -e '$num=25500; $num =~ s/0/\,0/; print $num,"\n";' 
255,00
$ perl -e '$num=250000000; $num =~ s/0/\,0/; print $num,"\n";'
25,0000000
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