String manipulations

[Lorn]

Yes, that would get rid of the decimals... but it wouldn't get rid of
the extraneous precision. Unfortunately, the precision out to the ten
thousandth is noise... I don't need to round it either as the numbers
are artifacts of an integer to float conversion. Basically, I need to
know how many decimal places there are and then make the necessary
deletions before I can normalize by adding zeros, multiplying, etc.

Thanks for your suggestion, though.