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Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? [message #33800 is a reply to message #33798]

Sat, 25 January 2003 03:59

marc schellens[1]
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Registered: January 2000

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K Banerjee wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Say I have the string "20.304000". How can I eliminate the last 3
> zeros?
>
> Thanks.
>
> K. Banerjee
>

How about this one:

s=inputString
b=byte(s)
i=max(where(b ne 48))
trim=string(b[0:i])

This won't work with multiple of 10 integers (when no decimal point
is there).
BTW: Is there a specification, that the where function gives its result
always in ascending order?

cheers,
marc

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		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 25 January 2003 10:35
		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: marc schellens[1] on Sat, 25 January 2003 03:59
		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: David Fanning on Fri, 24 January 2003 15:14
		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: James Kuyper on Fri, 24 January 2003 15:05
		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: K. Bowman on Fri, 24 January 2003 14:58
		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: David Fanning on Fri, 24 January 2003 14:56
		Re: How to eliminate trailing zeros in a string? By: David Fanning on Fri, 24 January 2003 14:42

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