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Adding commas to numbers

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By KevinADC on Sep 3rd, 2006 11:26 am

Convert 1000000 into 1,000,000 using a perl regexp.

my $number - 1000000;
$number = commify($number);

sub commify {
   (my $num = shift) =~ s/\G(\d{1,3})(?=(?:\d\d\d)+(?:\.|$))/$1,/g; 
   return $num; 
}

In the above code the first line should be:

my $number = 1000000;

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