I have a problem where I need to display numbers with 2 decimal places (including zero values). The following command works ok on a command line in sqlplus but not inside my perl script. 
"column monthly_cost format 9999999999999.99"

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If anyone knows how to insert formatting into the bit below please let me know.
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Excerpt from script. monthly_cost is the field to be formatted on it's way out of the DB. 
# Pull the DB record for the service_number passed 
my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:Oracle:$dbase", $user, $pass,
  { AutoCommit => 0, RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0 })
        or die $DBI::errstr;
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
        # sqlcode
        "select 
        siteid, monthly_cost
        from comms.services where service_number = ?"
        );
    $sth->execute($svce);

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Thanks
Scott

In reply to How to format numbers pulled back from an Oracle DB using SQL. by sanders

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