Problem 495. Formatting currency numbers

Solution 61727

Submitted on 16 Mar 2012 by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon

This solution is locked. To view this solution, you need to provide a solution of the same size or smaller.

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/

Test	Status	Code Input and Output
1	Pass	%% amt = 34.2; str = '$34.20'; assert(isequal(disp_currency(amt),str)) ans = $34.20
2	Pass	%% amt = 91337585; str = '$91,337,585.00'; assert(isequal(disp_currency(amt),str)) ans = $91,337,585.00
3	Pass	%% amt = -63234922.46; str = '($63,234,922.46)'; assert(isequal(disp_currency(amt),str)) ans = ($63,234,922.46)
4	Pass	%% amt = 2784.9; str = '$2,784.90'; assert(isequal(disp_currency(amt),str)) ans = $2,784.90