From: Marek Kubica
Subject: Re: how to suppress tailing zeros with FORMAT ~F
Date: 
Message-ID: <20090120235212.39f64177@halmanfloyd.lan.local>
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:19:41 -0800 (PST)
·········@yahoo.com wrote:

> Ruby:
> 
> format( "%.3f", 8.2 ).sub( /0?0$/, "" )
>     ==>"8.2"
> format( "%.3f", 8.0 ).sub( /0?0$/, "" )
>     ==>"8.0"
> format( "%.3f", 8.55 ).sub( /0?0$/, "" )
>     ==>"8.55"

Though I doubt that the original poster asked for a Ruby solution in
comp.lang.lisp. Using regular expressions is possible in Lisp, too.

regards,
Marek
comp.lang.lisp / 2009 / jan