From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-09T05:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: format money

On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:07:02 AM, saggmannen wrote:

> Hello, is there a way to format "Money"-style floats in ruby. E.g:

> 2111000.5756 should be written as the string "2,111,000.58"

> Maybe even more configurable with the Money-style class even taking
> locale into account, or at least letting the user define what kind of
> tokens to use as thousand-separator and decimal-token. This can be
> done in C++ (even if it's kind of complicated). Has it been done in
> ruby?

http://extensions.rubyforge.org defines Numeric#format_s (originally
written by Austin Ziegler) which gives you control over the characters
used for separator, and everything else.

Gavin