C - Printing formatted output of money

Question

In my program I print out a table, one of the columns has money listed. I want to print out the money values neatly and right justified, like below:

  $9.00
  $8.00
 $19.20
$200.90

I can right justify the numbers like so

while(condition)
{
   printf("$%5.2f\n", number);
}

But obviously with this method the $ isn't positioned where I want it, and I get an output more like:

$    9.00
$    8.00
$   19.20
$  200.90

Can I get the formatting I want simply with printf?

Answer 1

You can do it with auxiliary string:

while(condition)
{
   char str[10] = {};
   sprintf(str, "$%.2f", number);
   printf("%8s\n", str);
}

Answer 2

It is very difficult to achieve this by using simply printf. For currency-sensitive formatting you should use the strfmon() function.
For more detailed explanation read this answer given by Jonathan Leffler.