Financial Toolbox    

Formatting Currency

The Financial Toolbox provides several functions to format currency and chart financial data. The currency formatting functions are

cur2frac
Converts decimal currency values to fractional values
cur2str
Converts a value to Financial Toolbox bank format
frac2cur
Converts fractional currency values to decimal values

These examples show their use.

returns Dec = 12.125, which is the decimal equivalent of 12-1/8. The second input variable is the denominator of the fraction.

returns the string ($8264.00). For this toolbox function, the output format is a numerical format with dollar sign prefix, two decimal places, and negative numbers in parentheses; e.g., ($123.45) and $6789.01. The standard MATLAB bank format uses two decimal places, no dollar sign, and a minus sign for negative numbers; e.g., -123.45 and 6789.01.


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