John Kopanas wrote: > I have a number that is of type float. I want to format it as dollars > and cents. How do you recommend I do it? :-) Do you want delimiters between each group of three digits? As in: $123,456,789.33 # US style $123.456.789,33 # European style If not, the replies you have gotten show how to get two decimal places after the decimal point. -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com