dollarConvert.frink

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// Function convert a dollar value to its value in another year and print
// it out in values for the specified year.
dollar[amount, year, targetYear=2000] :=
{
   targetUnit = eval["dollar_$targetYear"]
   value = format[eval["$amount dollar_$year"], targetUnit, 2]
   println["$year\t$amount\t$value"]
}

// The default is to convert to year 2000 dollars.  If you want some other
// year, pass it as the third argument to the function, like:
//  dollar[12344565, 1968, 2006]

dollar[8228012, 1981]
dollar[7985974, 1982]
dollar[8361120, 1983]
dollar[7927070, 1984]
dollar[8763176, 1985]
dollar[9738023, 1986]
dollar[10195740, 1987]



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