Need to remove leading zeros for floating point output

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:13:24PM +0100, FX Coudert wrote:
> >We could add an option to set that byte to ' ' to suppress it.   
> >That would not be available until gfortran version 4.4.  It is  
> >straightforward to do though.
> 
> Totally straightforward, but how much do we need it? How many  
> compilers have it? I think neither Sun's nor Intel's do, and I  
> haven't found it for Portland either.
> 

I'm in agreement with FX.  Do we really need this option?
The code I wrote (if I interpreted the original email
correctly) took a minute or so to write.  It would seem 
to be more portable to write a small function that uses
an internal write.

-- 
Steve