Re: [dev-context] format() without formatting

Hello, For a string with a single float you can play a bit with the output of string.format. The following few lines strip all the trailing zeroes from strings that look a formatted float: ==== function string.optimize_format(form, ...) local formatted_string = string.format(form, ...) local optimized_string = formatted_string:gsub('^(%d*\.%d-)(0*)$', '%1') return optimized_string end print(string.optimize_format(0.003)) print(string.optimize_format(0.000007)) print(string.optimize_format(120)) print(string.optimize_format("Hello, world!")) ==== but of course this doesn't work if you have a format like "%s %s l"; you would have to parse all the arguments to format. Arthur