Quote Originally Posted by flyguille View Post
don't hardcode any fixed string format outputing when using format$()
"#,#0.00" is not a fixed format as "." is replaced with localized floating-point and "," with localized thousands separator and the number of digits in "thousand groups" might be 3, 4 or whatever the locale uses. (That's the reason there is no need to match groups of exactly three #'s or 0's between commas.)

Btw, I highly doubt OP knows how to construct "fixed" output formats.

cheers,
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