Maximum Float Width

Question

In go, the statement

fmt.Sprintf("%4.3f", 18.8836)

Will return

18.883

Is there a way of making the return value

18.88

In other words, is there a way to make the 4 apply to the whole width of the number and not just the decimal portion?

Related: [Golang: is there any standard library to convert float64 to string with fix width with maximum number of significant digits?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36515818/golang-is-there-any-standard-library-to-convert-float64-to-string-with-fix-widt/36518167#36518167) — icza, Jun 15 '17 at 02:47

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '17 at 20:59

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You can accomplish this with %g:

fmt.Printf("%.4g\n", 18.8836)

answered Jun 14 '17 at 20:59

user94559

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