Is it really this hard to print currency values?

[Dr. Hawkins]

As I sat down to finally encode currency into my output, I pulled old
answers from older questions and did more searches.

Is it *really* this hard to output currency?

To turn 123456.78 into $123,456.78, everything I'm finding would have
me using modulo arithmetic to produce three values, with these three
values being output in the string (4, actually, to allow values in the
millions).

Am I missing something obvious here?
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