From: jimka
Subject: Re: how to suppress tailing zeros with FORMAT ~F
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:50:51 +0000
Message-ID: <f2f2c569-c35a-4338-98b4-0f97c44120bf@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>

hi wax, if you read my original post you'll see i wanted to do it
without
post processing the string.  If i simply want to kill trailing zeros
there are 1e3s of ways of doing it with and without resorting to
regular expressions.