How do I get Matlab to stop formating my numbers?

Hello all,

This question will probably seem pretty obvious but I can't seem to find an answer. I would like matlab to stop changing numbers such as 12000000 into 1.20e+7. I am not quite sure how to do this.

This is both for asthetic reasons and for code reasons. I have code that compares two strings, one being read from a vector and the other being read from a text field in a gui. The one being read from the text field is being read as '1.53e+06' and the one being read from the vector is being read as '1532231.00'. strcmp doesn't equate these two as equal.

Any help is much appreciated :)

Regards,

John.

Answer 1

[Thomas]

You can set the default format through the GUI

on Windows: File > Preferences > Command Window > Numeric format

On MAC: MATLAB > Preferences > Command Window > Numeric format

[John Callahan]

Thank you very much. That's exactly what I needed.

Answer 2

[Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer]

To set the display format to long fixed decimal, enter:

>> format long

To see the results, enter:

>> pi

ans =

     3.141592653589793

To see the current format, enter:

>> get(0,'format')

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/format.html

[John Callahan]

Thank you that helped. Is there a way to set the default format to long?