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st: Keeping trailing zeros when formatting a decimal


From   Miranda Kim <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Keeping trailing zeros when formatting a decimal
Date   Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:33:29 +0100

I would be very grateful for advice on the following basic formatting questions...

To store a number as a string with a format showing 2 significant figures, I do the following, for example:
di "`=string(-0.000029, "%9.2g")'"

If the second significant figure is a zero, how can I make sure this is still displayed?
The following produces:
. di "`=string(-0.0000201, "%9.2g")'"
-.00002
when I want it to display "-0.000020"

Also, how can I make sure it displays the zero before the decimal point?

Also, why does
. di "`=string(-0.000029, "%9.1g")'"
-.000029
not show only 1 significant figure?

Many thanks for your help.


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