Re: Avoid printing leading zero
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg100772] Re: Avoid printing leading zero
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:05:04 -0400 (EDT)
On 6/11/09 at 9:47 PM, lorenzana.jose at gmail.com (Jos=C3=A9 Lorenzana)
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}]
Since you want a string result, it seems the most straight
forward way of doing this would be
In[13]:= StringReplace[ToString[-.03], "0." -> "."]
Out[13]= -.03