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    Re: number notation in official parts —Timothy Gould
   (...) I definitely know this. I see them far too much in my job as a numerical physicist ;) My point is that to write in mixed format (some %f and others %e) requires some strange coding unless there is a weird language which does it automatically. (...) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: number notation in official parts —Travis Cobbs
   (...) Actually, in C, %g does exactly this. Having said that, I think LDDP is a Delphi app, so it uses Pascal, and I don't remember how Pascal does formatting. --Travis (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: number notation in official parts —Timothy Gould
   (...) Ahhh. I'd never heard of %g before now. I'm so used to %f and %e it had never occured to me that there might be a mixed option. Handy to know as I suspect it would be helpful in reading files of unknown format. I'm sure Delphi has some hideous (...) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: number notation in official parts —Travis Cobbs
     (...) All float specifiers (e, E, f, g, G) are treated identically by the scanf functions. When scanning floats, they always recognize all float formats. One other thing about %g on output is that it automatically strips trailing zeros, which %f (...) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: number notation in official parts —Timothy Gould
     (...) Thanks for the info. I've always used perl scripts to convert oddly formatted data to a consistent format and then read it like that. Nice to know I don't always have to. If it could only read some of the more bizarre Fortran formats I'd never (...) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: number notation in official parts —Anders Isaksson
   (...) Yes, and no, or rather, maybe. In Delphi you would do something like Write(Format('%g', [Value])); i.e more or less the same format strings as in C. But, it is type-safe at runtime :-) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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