How to specify the format in writedlm?

[giordano]

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More control over writedlm formatting

Hi, I’ve recently discovered that writedlm() tends to output floating-point numbers using a very strange format pattern which removes the fractional part by decreasing exponent. Not only it is terribly confusing, the data is no longer easy to read and understand by a human. An example: 6.0444e-5 -> 60444e-9 2.15234e-5 -> 215234e-10 3.3253e-5 -> 33253e-9 It is not a bug - print_shortest has done it job by reducing the output by exactly one character - a decimal mark. But it is not human reada…