How to reduce decimal point in .dat file?

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I use the following code:
format long g
A=round(randperm(10,8));
save 'A.dat' A -ascii
output in .dat file:
9.0000000e+00 2.0000000e+00 4.0000000e+00 7.0000000e+00 1.0000000e+00 8.0000000e+00 5.0000000e+00 1.0000000e+01
However, it should be:
9 2 4 7 1 8 5 10
or
9.00 2.00 4.00 7.00 1.00 8.00 5.00 10.00
Please let me know how I can solve the problem.

Accepted Answer

Les Beckham
Les Beckham on 11 Aug 2020
For your two alternative ways of saving this data into a text file, try the following two options. Please read the documentation for fprintf which gives you full control over how your data is written to the file. save is not a very good way to save data to a text file, especially if you care about the format of the resulting file.
Option 1:
fp = fopen('A.dat', 'wt');
fprintf(fp, '%3d', A)
fclose(fp)
Option 2:
fp = fopen('A.dat', 'wt');
fprintf(fp, '%6.2f', A)
fclose(fp)
It would help to read the documentation for fopen as well.

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