# Add Dollar Signs to Axis

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-dollar-signs-to-axis/82524>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** plotting, gadfly\
**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-dollar-signs-to-axis/82524 "2022-06-09T20:04:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-dollar-signs-to-axis/82524/1 "2022-06-09T20:04:44Z")

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I want to add dollar signs to the x and y-axis (e.g., $10K). I’m sure I am missing something simple.

Thank you for any help!!!

using Gadfly, Printf  
plot(x=rand(10)\*10\_000, y=rand(10)\*10\_000,  
Scale.x\_continuous(labels=x → @sprintf(“% dk”, x/1000)),  
Scale.y\_continuous(labels=x → @sprintf(“% dk”, x/1000)))

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**Author:** ![aramirezreyes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aramirezreyes/32/42573_2.png) [@aramirezreyes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aramirezreyes)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-dollar-signs-to-axis/82524/2 "2022-06-09T20:14:59Z")

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Try [escaping the dollar sign with a backslash like this](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/strings/#string-interpolation):

```julia
using Gadfly, Printf
plot(x=rand(10)*10_000, y=rand(10)*10_000,
       Scale.x_continuous(labels=x -> @sprintf("\$% dk", x/1000)),
       Scale.y_continuous(labels=x -> @sprintf("\$% dk", x/1000)))

```

Which for me produces:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/1/5110e5a4d1a91243ccaabe9eebc87ddfa028fe15.png)

The backslash is to prevent Julia to interpret the dollar sign as [interpolation](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/strings/#string-interpolation) of another string.