Larry: can you provide details on exactly what you like about Fortran's print statement? Did it provide good defaults? Was it easy to customize?
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:55 PM, LarryD <larrydwor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something I miss from Fortran is the very convenient default "print *, > ..... " It handled almost 100% of my needs while working on a program and > was easily replaced by real formatting when the time came. Is there any > chance that Julia could get something like this? > > Thanks > > > On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 3:46:31 AM UTC-5, Ferran Mazzanti wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I could use some help here, because I can't believe I'm not able to >> easily print formatted numbers under Julia in a easy way. What I try to do >> is to write a function that, given a vector, prints all its components with >> a user-defined format. I was trying something of the form >> >> function Print_Vec(aux_VEC,form_VEC) >> form_VEC :: ASCIIString >> str_VEC = "%16.8f" >> for elem_VEC in aux_VEC >> str_VEC += @sprintf(form_VEC,elem_VEC) >> end >> return str_VEC >> end >> >> However, that doesn't work because it looks like the first argument in >> @sprintf must be a explicit string, and not a variable. >> Is there anything I can do with that? >> >> Thanks a lot for your help. >> >
