File Attributes conversion

[Chris Barker]

Sam Collett wrote:
> 
> How would you remove trailing 0's?
> e.g.
> Instead of 12.20kb it would be 12.2kb
> 23kb instead of 23.00 etc

I don't see a way to do it with format specifiers. %g doesn't print
trailing zeros, but it goes into exponential notation for larger values.
If you were sure if your values, you might be able to use it.

Otherwise, you can write a little function with string methods (or maybe
even a regular expression) that would strip them off for you.

-Chris


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