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

Your code rounds to three decimal places due to the ".3" before the f

printf("%1.3f", 359.01335);
printf("%1.3f", 359.00999);

Thus if you the second line rounded to two decimal places, you should change it to this:

printf("%1.3f", 359.01335);
printf("%1.2f", 359.00999);

That code will output your desired results:

359.013
359.01

*Note this is assuming you already have it printing on separate lines, if not then the following will prevent it from printing on the same line:

printf("%1.3f\n", 359.01335);
printf("%1.2f\n", 359.00999);

The Following program source code was my test for this answer

#include 

int main()
{

    printf("%1.3f\n", 359.01335);
    printf("%1.2f\n", 359.00999);

    while (true){}

    return 0;

}