# addcomma - put commas in numbers # input: a number per line # output: the input number followed by # the number with commas and two decimal places { printf("%-12s %20s\n", $0, addcomma($0)) } function addcomma(x, num) { if (x < 0) return "-" addcomma(-x) num = sprintf("%.2f", x) # num is dddddd.dd while (num ~ /[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/) sub(/[0-9][0-9][0-9][,.]/, ",&", num) return num }