Remove all unnecessary decimals?

Say you have a table of numbers like so

local numbers = {0.3000, 0.214000, 1.0000, 2.300, 3.39000} ---> 0.3, 0.213, 1, 2.3, 3.39

You see all the zeros at the end that's unnecessary, how do I go about removing them...

I think math.abs() is what you're looking for.

print(math.abs(0.300000)) --> 0.3
print(math.abs(3.3900000)) --> 3.39

If this help, then please accept this answer!

Adding onto Tyler090130's answer: Since we cannot have negatives due to the absolute function, we can store the sign first.

local function RoundDecimal(Number)
	local Sign = Number/math.abs(Number)
	local Rounded = math.abs(Number)
	local Signed = Rounded * Sign
	return Signed
end

RoundDecimal(-0.53000)
-- -0.53/0.53 = -1
-- abs(-0.53000) = 0.53
-- 0.53 * -1 = -0.53

Well this is messy, but the proper way to do this is to split each number into its characters by turning it into a string then using string.split

Next, you can iterate from the last digit to the first and if you hit either a number that is not 0 or a period, the rest of the string should be added back

Join the separated characters, convert back to a number, and add them to a new table and voila, you have a table with only the sig figs.

local numbers = {0.3000, 0.214000, 1.0000, 2.300, 3.39000}

local result = {}
for _, num in pairs(numbers) do
	local ntbl = string.split(num, "")
	local ftbl = {}
	local flag = false
	for c = #ntbl, 0, -1 do
		if flag == true then
			table.insert(ftbl, 1, ntbl[c])
		else
			local cnum = tonumber(c)
			if c == "." then
				flag = true
			elseif cnum and cnum > 0 then
				flag = true
				table.insert(ftbl, 1, ntbl[c])
			end
		end
	end
	
	local txt = ""
	for fk, fv in pairs(ftbl) do
		txt = txt..""..fv
	end
	local fnum = tonumber(txt)
	table.insert(result, (#result + 1), fnum)
end

"result" is the table with the updated numbers