Re: text.e bugs?
- Posted by petelomax Jan 13, 2015
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... I think the ".6" has a different meaning for f (six decimal paces?) and g (six digits?).
If anyone finds somewhere this is explained properly, please post a link here.
Pete
The ‘%g’ and ‘%G’ conversions print the argument in the style of ‘%e’ or ‘%E’ (respectively) if the exponent would be less than -4 or greater than or equal to the precision; otherwise they use the ‘%f’ style. A precision of 0, is taken as 1. Trailing zeros are removed from the fractional portion of the result and a decimal-point character appears only if it is followed by a digit.
Thanks.
The precision specifies how many digits follow the decimal-point character for the ‘%f’, ‘%e’, and ‘%E’ conversions. For these conversions, the default precision is 6. If the precision is explicitly 0, this suppresses the decimal point character entirely. For the ‘%g’ and ‘%G’ conversions, the precision specifies how many significant digits to print.
I think I'll probably just add a see also("external link") to that from my help file.
