Re: formatted table output to ascii file
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- Subject: [mg97678] Re: formatted table output to ascii file
- From: kuhlen at gmail.com
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:56:44 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gpnseu$gqd$1@smc.vnet.net>
On Mar 17, 6:02 am, kuh... at gmail.com wrote: > For the life of me I just cannot figure out how to get Mathematica to > produce nicely formatted (C or Fortran format) output of a 2D table of > numbers to an ASCII file. > > Let's say I've got this table: > > {{-6., 0.0000243729, 0.0000759669, 0.00187499}, > {-2., 0.0613641, 0.0827868, 0.0831174}, > {0.4, 0.317162, 0.307924, 0.33977}} > > I'd like the resulting file to correspond to this C format string > "%5.2f %10.3e %10.3e %10.3e\n", i.e. to look like this: > > -6.00 2.437e-05 7.597e-05 1.875e-03 > -2.00 6.136e-02 8.279e-02 8.312e-02 > 0.40 3.172e-01 3.079e-01 3.398e-02 > > I tried Export["file.dat",table], but got this mess: > > -6. 0.00002437286669095962 0.0000759669270937278 > 0.0018749887943499436 > -1.9999999999999998 0.06136412066687522 > 0.08278680554897219 0.08311737741506361 > 0.40000000000000036 0.31716209930168276 > 0.3079237859649251 0.3397696229714295 > > I also tried pre-formatting with something like > > newdata = Map[ToString[PaddedForm[#, {6, 4}]] &, table, {2}]; > > but my mathematica-fu isn't good enough to generalize this to the > desired format. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > mike With some more work I found a solution. For future reference here's what I did: - First, I defined two formatting functions: (* this is equivalent to %7.4f in C *) fmt1[x_] := PaddedForm[x, {5, 4}]; (* this is equivalent to %10.3e in C *) fmt2[x_] := ScientificForm[x, 4, ExponentFunction -> (# &), NumberFormat -> (Row[{PaddedForm[ToExpression[#1], {4, 3}], If[ToExpression[#3] < 0, "e-", "e+"], PaddedForm[Abs[ToExpression[#3]], 1, SignPadding -> True, NumberPadding -> "0"]}] &)]; - Next I defined a function that takes a row of the table and creates a formatted string utilizing the fmt1[] and fmt2[] functions. toline[x_] := ToString[TableForm[{{fmt1[x[[1]]], fmt2[x[[2]]], fmt2[x[[3]]], fmt2[x[[4]]]}}, TableSpacing -> {0, 1}]]; - Lastly I opened the output file, and used Map[] to apply toline[] to every row and write out the resulting line. fp = OpenWrite["file.dat"]; Map[(WriteString[fp, toline[#], "\n"]) &, table]; Close[fp]; - The output is of the desired form: -6.0000 2.437e-05 7.597e-05 1.875e-03 -2.0000 6.136e-02 8.279e-02 8.312e-02 0.4000 3.172e-01 3.079e-01 3.398e-02 mike