number formatting

[JR via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 20 April 2014 at 12:53:11 UTC, steven kladitis wrote:
> Note sure if you can edit messages once sent.
>
>  $13,456.67
>  245,678,541
>
>
> On Sunday, 20 April 2014 at 12:50:52 UTC, steven kladitis wrote:
>> How do you format numbers to have things like.
>> Leading $ or , or <CR> with or without leading zeros.
>>  for example $56.00
>>              $056.00
>>              $1,3456.67
>>              <345.89>CR

As for grouping by thousands http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/bddb71eb75bb 
*does* work, but I'm not particularly happy with the approach.

As monarch_dodra said, representing money via a struct or similar 
would be wiser than dealing with raw doubles/reals (as that paste 
does).