Need to remove leading zeros for floating point output

[Jerry DeLisle]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.
> 
I concur.

Jerry