in reply to Force currency view

There is no such thing as currency. You can format things nicely however:
printf('$%.2f', $number) 
c:\>perl -e "printf('$%.2f', 12.9)"
$12.90
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Re^2: Force currency view
by bart (Canon) on Feb 07, 2011 at 22:28 UTC
    See also sprintf if you want to do something more with the result than just print it.
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