How to output float to cout without scientific notation or trailing zeros?

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I am not sure about the “most elegant way” but here’s one way.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std ;
string fix( float x, int p )
{
    ostringstream strout ;
    strout << fixed << setprecision(p) << x ;
    string str = strout.str() ;
    size_t end = str.find_last_not_of( '0' ) + 1 ;
    return str.erase( end ) ;
}


int main()
{
    float a = 0.000001f ;
    float b = 0.1f ;

    cout << "a: " << fix( a, 6 ) << endl;     //  0.000001 ok.
    cout << "b: " << fix( b, 6 ) << endl;     //  0.1 ok.

   return 0;
}

You could perhaps create your own I/O manipulator if you need to to a lot of this kind of output. That is arguably more elegant, but the implementation could be similar.

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