RE: -var-update using formatted value

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > I think you are referring to the code that uses "%.9g" The format "%#.9g"
 > could be used instead...  But trailing zeros will not be removed at all, so
 > 1.0 will be 1.000000000 instead of 1 but this will also be true for numbers
 > like 1.11 which would not be 1.110000000 That is probably not a good thing

If it's important, you could presumably print to a string first, do a regexp
match and then add a decimal point if the number did not have one.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob