Easy way to display non-zero decimal places?

[JenniferMurphy]

I have a UDF that calculates the odds for various events. One of the formats it can use for the result is the fractional odds (5:1, 3/4, etc.). I would like to display these in the most compact form possible. That is, no trailing zeroes. Here's some sample data the results I want:

Actual Result	Desired Display
5.000/1.000	5/1
2.500/1.000	2.5/1
1.250/1.000	1.25/1
0.667/1.000	0.667/1
1.000/2.000	1/2
1.000/1.250	1/1.25
1.000/1.333	1/1.333

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My thought is to format it as "0.000" and then remove trailing zeroes. Is there a better way?

 

[shg]

Maybe ...

	A​	B​	C​
2​	0.5512​	1/1.81​	B2: =IF(A2 < 1, TEXT(1/A2, "1\/0.00"), TEXT(A2, "0.00\/1"))
3​	1.4449​	1.44/1​
4​	1.0035​	1.00/1​
5​	0.5963​	1/1.68​
6​	0.8139​	1/1.23​
7​	0.85​	1/1.18​
8​	0.576​	1/1.74​
9​	0.4424​	1/2.26​
10​	2.9919​	2.99/1​
11​	0.4196​	1/2.38​
12​	0.5974​	1/1.67​
13​	2.7854​	2.79/1​

 

[JenniferMurphy]

Shg,

I probably didn't make myself clear enough. The UDF has two values A & B (A"/"B). I want to format both numbers separately to remove trailing zeroes. I think your method does the division first, no?

I just found this post from you from 2 years ago:

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel...move-leading-trailing-zeros-item-numbers.html

This seems like a good solution, which I will apply to both values and then construct the ratio as a string.

 

[shg]

If you're happy, I'm happy.

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I have a UDF that calculates the odds for various events. One of the formats it can use for the result is the fractional odds (5:1, 3/4, etc.). I would like to display these in the most compact form possible. That is, no trailing zeroes. Here's some sample data the results I want:

Actual Result	Desired Display
5.000/1.000	5/1
2.500/1.000	2.5/1
1.250/1.000	1.25/1
0.667/1.000	0.667/1
1.000/2.000	1/2
1.000/1.250	1/1.25
1.000/1.333	1/1.333

<tbody>
</tbody>

My thought is to format it as "0.000" and then remove trailing zeroes. Is there a better way?

You did not post your UDF code, so it is not possible to tell how your odds are calculated, but if you calculate the numerator and denominator separately to the lowest form, then I would think this might work...

Odds = Format(Numerator) & "/" & Format(Denominator)

 

[JenniferMurphy]

If you're happy, I'm happy.

Heh, well, you are easy to please.

I was impressed by your clever solution in the other thread.

Function CCTrim(sInp As String) As String
   CCTrim = Replace(Trim(Replace(sInp, "0", " ")), " ", "0")
End Function

It took me a few minutes to figure out what you were doing. First you replace all of the zeroes with spaces, which includes embedded zeroes, then you remove (trim) leading and trailing spaces, then you replace the interior spaces with zeroes. It's very clever. I would not have thought of it in a million years. I love clever solutions like this. Thank you.

 

[JenniferMurphy]

You did not post your UDF code, so it is not possible to tell how your odds are calculated, but if you calculate the numerator and denominator separately to the lowest form, then I would think this might work...

Odds = Format(Numerator) & "/" & Format(Denominator)

I see that I neglected to mention that I want no more than 3 decimal places. Otherwise, this would work great. Thanks.