Stuck in exponential notation format

Hello All,

I am struggling to display my answer without scientific notation.

    fprintf('Failed due to temperature %0.1d\n',Percentfailtemp)

This will spit out scientific notation in the command window, regardless of the fact that the value of my variable within the workspace is not in scientific notation.

Is there a work around?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

format long g
for Percentfailtemp = [0.011 0.11 1.1 11 110 110.234 100*(1-eps)]
    fprintf('Failed due to temperature %0.1d\n',Percentfailtemp)
end

Failed due to temperature 1.1e-02
Failed due to temperature 1.1e-01
Failed due to temperature 1.1e+00
Failed due to temperature 11
Failed due to temperature 110
Failed due to temperature 1.1e+02
Failed due to temperature 1.0e+02

Scientific notation got used precisely in the situations where the input is not an integer. This includes cases such as

100*(1-eps)

ans = 
                       100

That display as integers but are not exactly integers.

Do not use a %d format for values that are not exact integers. If you want to use 1 decimal place, use a %f format

for Percentfailtemp = [0.011 0.11 1.1 11 110 110.234 100*(1-eps)]
    fprintf('Failed due to temperature %0.1f\n',Percentfailtemp)
end

Failed due to temperature 0.0
Failed due to temperature 0.1
Failed due to temperature 1.1
Failed due to temperature 11.0
Failed due to temperature 110.0
Failed due to temperature 110.2
Failed due to temperature 100.0

[Oliver]

That second part was exactly what I needed!

Didnt even realise that I had other options for the letter %