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Re: Converting Strings to Numbers with higher prec

Subject: Re: Converting Strings to Numbers with higher prec
From: Dan Hensley
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:01:46 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:03:06 -0400, nevine jacob wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> Thanks so much for the help. "format long g" works best for me. By
> the way, would it be possible to "control" the number of digits after
> the decimal point?

There was a recent thread about how to do this.  In short, overload
@double/display.m.  The thread gave specific examples of how to do this.

Alternately, use fprintf to control the display.

Dan



> 
> Thanks,
> Nevine
> 
> Dan Hensley wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:39:04 -0400, nevine jacob wrote:
>>
>>> how do i convert a number string to a number with precision
> upto
>> 8
>>> decimal digits?
>>>
>>> the function, str2double only has precision upto 4 decimal
>> digits.
>>
>> What makes you think this?
>>
>> Try 'format long' and see if it makes any difference :).
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>>
>>> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> nevine
>>
>>


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