fprintf %E Leading zero
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Hi there,
I am saving a text file using the fprintf command. I have specified the following format string: % 13.6E and the following number is printed: 2.166250E+02.
Can anyone suggest an easy change to the format string such that the number is printed with a leading zero and the exponential increases by one? I.E the number becomes 0.2166250E+03.
Many thanks for the help.
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Sven
on 24 Oct 2012
Edited: Sven
on 24 Oct 2012
Interesting question Peter...
Here's a solution I found, which pretty much involves brute force shifting of characters around the ".", and incrementing characters after the "E"
sprintfPrettyE = @(num)regexprep(sprintf('%13.6E', num), '(\d)\.(\d+)E((+|-)\d+)', '0.$1$2E${sprintf(''%02d'',str2num($3)+1)}')
>> sprintfPrettyE(2.166250E+02)
ans =
0.2166250E03
This is pretty close to what you're looking for... You'll notice that the +/- sign after the "E" is gone though... It will only show up when it is a "-" sign. Do you need it in for the plus sign too?
If so, you can wrap the whole thing in another regexprep to add a "+" sign:
sprintfPrettyE = @(num)regexprep( regexprep(sprintf('%13.6E', num), '(\d)\.(\d+)E((+|-)\d+)', '0.$1$2E${sprintf(''%02d'',str2num($3)+1)}'), 'E(\d)', 'E+$1')
>> sprintfPrettyE(2.166250E+02)
ans =
0.2166250E+03
Thanks, Sven.
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Star Strider
on 24 Oct 2012
This came up in another question, Normalizing the E descriptor a few months ago. I sketched out a solution for it.
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Matt Fig
on 24 Oct 2012
Here is another:
F = @(x)regexprep(sprintf('%13.6E\n',x*10),'(\d)(\.)(.*)','0$2$1$3')
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Dr. Seis
on 24 Oct 2012
Here is a potentially lame way of doing it:
temp_num = 216.6250;
temp_str = sprintf('%13.11e',temp_num*10);
temp_str = sprintf('0.%s%s',temp_str(1:end~=2))
temp_str =
0.216625000000e+03
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