Thread: More stupid questions: prettyprinting of ints??

hello,

the thing i am making is a bookkepping program. This program handles
multiple currencies, each currency is formatted a bit differently on
from the other.

I do store the amounts as int's in the DB...
In another table i have sample format strings that could be used to
format them...

but if there is an inbuild functionality to format currencies, i will
gladly take it....
on the other hand is it possible to make substring operations in
postgres (some examples somewhere)?

What would be the best way to implement this thing?

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human population is growing....

yeah forgot another thing....
i want also to write a SQL trigger to parse incoming fields for
preprocessing before DB insertion....

in perl i would do a thing like that:

$format = "9999.999.999,99"; #took out of DB...
#inserting a number into the db....
$theval =~ s/\.//g;
if($theval =~/\S+,\d{2}/)
{ $theval =~ s/,//g; $theval *= 100;
} 
#extracting a number from the db....
$f= $#format;
$i= $#theval;
$res = "";
while($i>=0)
{ if($format[$f] neq "9") {   $res = $format[$f].$res     $f--; }#if($format[$f] neq "9") $res = $theval[$i].$res ;
$i--;$f--;
 
}#while($i>=0)

any chance i could this get out of the frontend into the DB? (as sayd
want to write more frontends so the less is in the frontend and the more
in the DB...)

-- 
ciao bboett
==============================================================
bboett@earthling.net
http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett
===============================================================
the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant.
human population is growing....