Use printf to format floats without decimal places if only trailing 0s

Question

Is it possible to format a float in C to only show up to 2 decimal places if different from 0s using printf?

Ex:

12 => 12

12.1 => 12.1

12.12

Answer 1

From our discussion in the above answer here is my program that works for any number of digits before the decimal.

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main() {
    float f1 = 12.13;
    float f2 = 12.245;
    float f3 = 1242.145;
    float f4 = 1214.1;

    int i = 0;
    char *s1 = (char *)(malloc(sizeof(char) * 20));
    char *s2 = (char *)(malloc(sizeof(char) * 20));

    sprintf(s1, "%f", f1);
    s2 = strchr(s1, '.');
    i = s2 - s1;
    printf("%.*g\n", (i+2), f1);

    sprintf(s1, "%f", f2);
    s2 = strchr(s1, '.');
    i = s2 - s1;
    printf("%.*g\n", (i+2), f2);

    sprintf(s1, "%f", f3);
    s2 = strchr(s1, '.');
    i = s2 - s1;
    printf("%.*g\n", (i+2), f3);

    sprintf(s1, "%f", f4);
    s2 = strchr(s1, '.');
    i = s2 - s1;
    printf("%.*g\n", (i+2), f4);

    free(s1);
    free(s2);

    return 0;
}

And here's the output

12.13
12.24
1242.15
1214.1