Avoid trailing zeroes in printf()

Question

I keep stumbling on the format specifiers for the printf() family of functions. What I want is to be able to print a double (or float) with a maximum given number of digits

Answer 1

What about something like this (might have rounding errors and negative-value issues that need debugging, left as an exercise for the reader):

printf("%.0d%.4g\n", (int)f/10, f-((int)f-(int)f%10));

It's slightly programmatic but at least it doesn't make you do any string manipulation.