To all the Monks here who might remember my past questions, I think I'm getting better... but yet again another question...
This is my output file:
data data data data 7,843,391.58
xyz xzy xyz .... 12,224,675.68
abc ~~~ ~~~ .... 1,339,203.94
(more data) 21,407,271.2
(more data) 16,728,929.69
16,728,929.69
The following code is what I used; was taken from the Q and A section (thanks vroom) to insert commas.
sub addcommas{
my ($text)= $nocomma;
$text=reverse $text;
$text=~s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/$1,/g;
$text=scalar reverse $text;
return $text;
}
My question/s is/are how can I:
- align to the right the final column w/ the dollar amounts? (when printing out.. this is the end of a string print with other data left out for this example) or
align the decimals?
and
- how to stop from dropping the end zero of the cents, where it's missing?
This is my print statement how I got my final printout (where $comma is the returned variable caught from the above function):
for ($p = 0; $p < @a_table; $p++){
@a_print = split (/\t/, $a_table[$p]);
$nocomma = $a_print[5] / 100;
$comma = &addcommas();
print AUDIT "$a_print[0]\t$a_print[1]\t$read_time\t$a_print[3]
+\t$comma\n";
} # end for loop
My final output is all correct, just the problems w/alignment and the loss of zero at end of cents...
thanks for any/all help.