I'm looking to format a Long Float as currency in C. I would like to place a dollar sign at the beginning, commas iterating every third digit before decimal, and a dot immediately before decimal. So far, I have been printing numbers like so:
printf("You are owed $%.2Lf!\n", money);
which returns something like
You are owed $123456789.00!
Numbers should look like this
$123,456,789.00
$1,234.56
$123.45
Any answers need not be in actual code. You don't have to spoon feed. If there are C-related specifics which would be of help, please mention. Else pseudo-code is fine.
Your printf
might already be able to do that by itself with the '
flag. You probably need to set your locale, though. Here's an example from my machine:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
int main(void)
{
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "");
printf("$%'.2Lf\n", 123456789.00L);
printf("$%'.2Lf\n", 1234.56L);
printf("$%'.2Lf\n", 123.45L);
return 0;
}
And running it:
> make example
clang -Wall -Wextra -Werror example.c -o example
> ./example
$123,456,789.00
$1,234.56
$123.45
This program works the way you want it to both on my Mac (10.6.8) and on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 10.10) I just tried.