Numerical output

I have the numeric output of my code saved to ASCII files. The output is written in scientific notation. How do I change my output to be written in decimal notation, for example, I get 2.4e+000 but I want see 2.4 without having to change make the change in Excel.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

How are you doing the writing now? The line(s) of code that are doing the writing would help.

[Eric]

This is what I have:

% save database file

db_fname = ('database.txt');

cd(save_path)

save(db_fname, '-ascii', '-tabs');

eval(['save -ascii -tabs ', db_fname,' database']);