Greetings.

I'm working with an app that interacts with (ugh!) MS Access and I'm doing a lot of queries in 'Currency' type fields.

When I ask for one of this values, this is the "normal" MS Access behaviour:

I ask for the value in the "account" field.

MS Access returns: 360000
What I want is: 360.000,00


So, I've wrote a sub to to this formatting for me. Here it is: 
sub FormatValue
{
    $c = 0;
    $vl = $_[0];
    
    if ($vl ne "0,00" and $vl ne "0" and $vl ne ",00" and 
$vl ne ".0000")
    {
        if ($vl =~ m/(\.0000)/)
        {
            $vl =~ s/(\.0000)$/,00/;
        }
        else
        {
            $vl .= ",00";
        }
        ($interessa,$zeros) = split (",",$vl);
        $compr = length $interessa;
        
        $c = int ($compr / 3);
        
        if ($c eq 1 and $compr > 3)
        {
            $um = substr($interessa, -3, 3);
            $interessa =~ s/$um/\.$um/;
        }
        elsif ($c eq 2)
        {
            $um = substr($interessa, -6, 3);
            $dois = substr($interessa, -3, 3);
            $interessa =~ s/$um/$um\./;
        }
        $result = $interessa.",".$zeros;
    }
    else
    {
        $result = "0,00";
    }
    
    return $result;
}

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So, it works pretty fine:

Value of AccessReturned by sub
36000.000036.000,00
12725.000012.725,00


But when I get a value like 80000 it returns 8.0000,00 !

Anyone can tell me what's the catch here?

Thanks in advance,

Er Galvão Abbott
 a.k.a. Lobo, DaWolf
Webdeveloper

In reply to Formatting MS Access Currency Values by DaWolf

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