sprintf with leading minus sign

I am trying to use SPRINTF to print the following variable's value. How to print it so it does not without the minus sign

>> %This is NOT what I want
>> x=-0.000001; sprintf('%6.2f',x)

ans =

   -0.00

>> %This is what I want
ans =

    0.00

Answer 1

[Udit Gupta]

use

    sprintf('%6.2f',abs(x))

Answer 2

[pfb]

Not sure you can eliminate the minus sign. I think what you are saying is basically

 if(abs(x)<1e-2)
  x =0;
 end

Answer 3

[Christian D]

I have the same problem, this minus annoys me.

I think a workaround is using the round or roundn on that numbers.

sprintf('%3.0f',-0.1)
sprintf('%3.0f',round(-0.1))

produces

-0

0

Is there any other solution than that?

[Stephen Cobeldick]

"a workaround is using the round"

That is not a workaround: round is the way to round numbers. MATLAB supports negative zero because this is required by IEEE 754, which MATLAB uses for floating point values.