I have done this before and It just won't work now. I am trying to print a dollar amount, but it keeps only showing the .00 (cents). Here is my code:
# Tried this:
$_table_data .= qq~
</td>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top: 5px">
\$~ . sprintf("%.2f", "$_srp_price") . qq~
</td>
    </tr>~;
    # Result: .95 SHOULD be: 4.95

# And this:
$_table_data .= qq~
</td>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top: 5px">
~ . '$' . sprintf("%.2f", "$_srp_price") . qq~
</td>
    </tr>~;

    # Result: .95
# And This:
$_table_data .= "\$";
$_table_data .= sprintf("%.2f", "$_srp_price");

    # Result: Same thing: .95

# And This:
$_table_data .= '$';
$_table_data .= "$_srp_price";
    # Result: Same thing: .95

# And This:
$_table_data .= '\$';
$_table_data .= $_srp_price;
    # Result: .95 Same thing again.

# And this:
$_table_data .= '\\$';
$_table_data .= $_srp_price;
    # Result: \.95

# And this (works without the dollar sign
$_table_data .= sprintf("%.2f", "$_srp_price");
    # Result: 4.95

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I have tried all kinds of different variations. I cannot get this to work no matter what I try!

Later in the code I have $_table_data inserted into another variable which is inside a html table.

I don't know what I did different, but this is just one page of a lot of them. Here is my main index.cgi file that calls the different 'modules' I am using: 
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard :cgi-lib escapeHTML);
use Mail::Sendmail;
use Digest::MD5;
use Crypt::CBC;
use Crypt::Blowfish;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Calendar::Simple;
use OGC::Sid;
use strict;
use Time::Duration;
use vars qw($cookie $sessid $sessref $page $loggedin $pgtitle $_title 
+%in $_pp_browser $reqdir $pg $_page_content $_dur_time);
    $_dur_time = time();
ReadParse(\%in);

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Any ideas?

I would really appreciate any advice as to how I can do this. I don't know if one of the modules I'm using is messing this up. I also call HTTP::BrowserDetect later in a config file.
thx,
Richard

In reply to Printing a dollar sign.. by powerhouse

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