Remove insignificant trailing zeros from a number?

Question

Have I missed a standard API call that removes trailing insignificant zeros from a number?

Ex.

var x = 1.234000 // to become 1.234;
var y = 1.234001; // stays 1.234001

Number.toFixed() and Number.toPrecision() are not quite what I'm looking for.

Answer 1

How about just multiplying by one like this?

var x = 1.234000*1; // becomes 1.234

var y = 1.234001*1; // stays as 1.234001

Answer 2

If you cannot use Floats for any reason (like money-floats involved) and are already starting from a string representing a correct number, you could find this solution handy. It converts a string representing a number to a string representing number w/out trailing zeroes.

function removeTrailingZeroes( strAmount ) {
    // remove all trailing zeroes in the decimal part
    var strDecSepCd = '.'; // decimal separator
    var iDSPosition = strAmount.indexOf( strDecSepCd ); // decimal separator positions
    if ( iDSPosition !== -1 ) {
        var strDecPart = strAmount.substr( iDSPosition ); // including the decimal separator

        var i = strDecPart.length - 1;
        for ( ; i >= 0 ; i-- ) {
            if ( strDecPart.charAt(i) !== '0') {
                break;
            }
        }

        if ( i=== 0 ) {
            return strAmount.substring(0, iDSPosition);
        } else {
            // return INTPART and DS + DECPART including the rightmost significant number
            return strAmount.substring(0, iDSPosition) + strDecPart.substring(0,i + 1);
        }
    }

    return strAmount;
}

Answer 3

Strip trailing zeros easy way with big.js Just simple trick

1.234000 => 1.234

let x = new Big("1.2340000");
x = new Big(x.toFixed(5)); //decide how many decimal digits you want

console.log(x.toString()); //1.234

Answer 4

None of these solutions worked for me for very small numbers. http://numeraljs.com/ solved this for me.

parseFloat(0.00000001.toFixed(8));
// 1e-8

numeral(0.00000001).format('0[.][00000000]');
// "0.00000001"

Answer 5

I needed to solve this problem too when Django was displaying Decimal type values in a text field. E.g. when '1' was the value. It would show '1.00000000'. If '1.23' was the value, it would show '1.23000000' (In the case of a 'decimal_places' setting of 8)

Using parseFloat was not an option for me since it is possible it does not return the exact same value. toFixed was not an option since I did not want to round anything, so I created a function:

function removeTrailingZeros(value) {
    value = value.toString();

    # if not containing a dot, we do not need to do anything
    if (value.indexOf('.') === -1) {
        return value;
    }

    # as long as the last character is a 0 or a dot, remove it
    while((value.slice(-1) === '0' || value.slice(-1) === '.') && value.indexOf('.') !== -1) {
        value = value.substr(0, value.length - 1);
    }
    return value;
}

Answer 6

Here's a possible solution:

var x = 1.234000 // to become 1.234;
var y = 1.234001; // stays 1.234001

eval(x) --> 1.234
eval(y) --> 1.234001