Re: behaviour of "save" function by saving int16 vector

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 23:37:53 +0200, Prof. Dr. Peter Schulz wrote:
> why is octave, when using "save" for writing an int16 vector/matrix with
> -ascii option,
> writing the integer numbers in exponential form and not as plain integer
> numbers?

The 'save -ascii' format is intended for Matlab compatibility and is
extremely limited in what it supports.

For example, Matlab mentions that saving a character vector 'abc' with
the '-ascii' option results in

    9.7000000e+001  9.8000000e+001  9.9000000e+001

> I'd like to adjust this so that I only have pure integer numbers in the file
> like they
> are shown in the workspace window. Is it possible?

If you care about the formatting of the contents of the file, then you
should probably look into other file I/O functions. Have you tried
dlmwrite, fdisp, fprintf, or fputs for example?

Cheers,

-- 
mike

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