Re: Formatting of digits across columns

[João Rodrigues]

On 27-10-2013 11:17, Andreas Weber wrote:
> I'm not sure if I understand your question so please provide some smaple
> matrix and your desired output.
Dear Andreas

Given a =

9.1285641   56546.353   0.0000881
47.467754   913203.35   0.0001568
389.69078   9789999.2   0.0027298
2971.9594   12137606    0.0130308
30971.488   124024830  0.4291615

and setting the maximum number of significant digits n = 6 the display 
should be:

        9.1           57000   0.000088
      47.4         913000   0.000156
    389.6       9790000   0.002729
  2971.9     12138000   0.013030
30971.4   124025000   0.429161

The only way I see how to do it involves eval:

b = max(floor(log10(a))) + 1;
c = max(n - b,0);
b = max(b,0);
d = 
["printf(\"%",num2str(b(1)+1),".",num2str(c(1)),"f\\t%",num2str(b(2)+1),".",num2str(c(2)),"f\\t%",num2str(b(3)+1),".",num2str(c(3)),"f\\n\",chop(a\'",num2str(n),"))"]
eval(d)

I was just wondering if there was a better way, as I hear that using 
eval is a bad programming practice.


Thank you,
Joao