Re: Avoid printing leading zero
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg100769] Re: Avoid printing leading zero
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <h0sc2a$hi2$1@smc.vnet.net>
Use StringDrop
In[16]:= StringDrop["-0.03", {2, 2}]
Out[16]= "-.03"
Cheers-- Sjoerd
On Jun 12, 3:46 am, Jos=E9 Lorenzana <lorenzana.j... at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you avoid printing the leading zero in -0.03?
> I need to construct the string "-.03" .
>
> Something like this does not work:
> ToString at NumberForm[-0.3, {0, 2}]
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Jos=E9