Re: Formatted output
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- Subject: [mg39257] Re: Formatted output
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 03:08:00 -0500 (EST)
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Have a look at TableForm. Here is a small example of what I think you might
want to do:
TableForm[{{1,2.34},{-5.6789,0}},TableAlignments->Right]
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Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK
"Steve Gray" <stevebg at adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:b1q704$34m$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello all,
>
> I want to produce a table of text output (in the same notebook
> my code is in). The output consists of many rows of numbers, each row
> containing the same number of numbers. For example the entire output
> might consist of 500 rows each having 7 columns. It is important for
> understanding the output to have well-formatted columns of a constant
> width regardless of the number of digits in each number (which will be
> no more than say 9). In the columns the numbers should be
> right-aligned.
> "Print" does not seem to have enough control to do this. It's
> much less flexible than the print statement in C. What I need is
> something like that. I've been reading the book, sections 2.7, 2.8,
> etc., and it looks like I will have to write an actual (small) program
> to do this.
> I'd appreciate any suggestions or leads to a package where all
> this is already done.
> Many thanks.
>
> Steve Gray
>
>