Make num2str in engineering format
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Hey, I'm writing this code:
disp(['Cutoff frequency: ',num2str(wcutoff,'%e')]);
and this displays the frequency in an normal exponential format, but I want it to be in eng format. This means that instead of:
5.2e10
I want it to show:
52.0e9
Is that possible? A possible workaround could be to use "format shortEng" and than separate the display code into 2 lines, but than I need to find a way that it'll display it in one output line or something like that...
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Steven Lord
on 22 Nov 2021
If you're using release R2021a or later I would use formattedDisplayText instead of evalc.
wcutoff = 5.2e10;
t = formattedDisplayText(wcutoff, 'NumericFormat', 'shortEng')
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Harry Dymond
on 16 Jul 2019
For the benifit of those stumbling across this old thread in search of answers: my FEX submission num2eng will do what the OP is asking for.
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Jos (10584)
on 7 Mar 2014
A similar effect can be obtained by manipulating the string rather than the numbers
X = 52346574 ;
s1 = sprintf('%.2e',X)
v = sscanf(s1,'%d.%de%d')
s2 = sprintf('%d%.1fe%02d',v(1), v(2)/10, v(3)-1)
disp(['Cutoff frequency: ', s2]);
Which can be made into a function handle:
Val2EngString = @(X) sprintf('%d%.1fe%02d',[1 .1 1] .* sscanf(sprintf('%.2e',X),'%d.%de%d').' - [0 0 1])
disp(Val2EngString(2340000000))
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