[Lazarus] Converting pence into pounds and then to string

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:23:46AM +0000, Richard Mace wrote:
> Got a simple question that has stumped me, which tends to happen if I don't
> do development for a couple of months.
> 
> How's the best way of converting an integer number "208" (that is pence)
> into a string value that is in pounds (2.08)

Logically, to format currency one uses the standard library function
formatcurr:

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/formatcurr.html

uses sysutils;

var v : currency;

begin
 v:=208 /100;
 writeln(formatcurr('#.##',v));
end.