Problem 495. Formatting currency numbers

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Jan on 23 Apr 2012

This looks much (c)leaner than the REGEXP method.

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 16 Mar 2012

while on the topic of 'undocumented trivia that will earn you a couple of cody points for no good reason', have you seen this one?

Ned Gulley on 23 Jun 2016

I believe this is the very first use of the Ans Hack in Cody. See http://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2016/06/23/the-great-ans-hack/

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 15 Mar 2012

interesting use of strread to turn a string into a cell array (though probably only really useful in cody)

Ned Gulley on 15 Mar 2012

Kids, don't try this at home. :-)

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Ned Gulley on 13 Mar 2012

This solution was proposed by Oleg Komarov.

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