As far as I know there is no way with numerical formating to set
whether numbers between 0 and 1 are padded with a zero. Unfortunately,
the <@trim> is not as functional as <@pad>, or you could use this.
There would be several ways to rid the first zero for display purposes,
but this seems to be the easiest:
assume @@local$number is the 0.50 number read from a datasource, and
@@local$displayNumber is the output.
<@! for safety, you should verify it is a number between 0 and 1>
<@if "(@@local$number < 1) and (@@local$number > 0)">
<@assign local$displayNumber
"<@substring str='<@var local$number format="num:3-*,\,,2,.,,,-,">'
start='2' numchars='<@length str="<@var local$number
format='num:3-*,\,,2,.,,,-,'>">'>">
<@else>
<@assign local$displayNumber "<@var local$number
format='num:3-*,\,,2,.,,,-,'>">
</@if>
You could make this a custom tag if you use it a lot.
Robert
On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 04:50 PM, Thomas Ferguson wrote:
> ok, I give up... whoever designed the format scheme in Tango (not
> Witango,
> because it was there before) was a sadist.
>
> What is the proper format attribute to use when all I want fifty cents
> to
> display like this: .50 instead of 0.50 or $ 0.50?
>
> format="num:us-accounting" gives this: $ 0.50
> format="num:3-*,\,,2,.,,,-," gives this: 0.50
>
> How do I lose the leading 0?
>
> TIA
>
> Tom Ferguson
>
>
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