formatted table output to ascii file
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- Subject: [mg97640] formatted table output to ascii file
- From: kuhlen at gmail.com
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:02:56 -0500 (EST)
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