Hi Ferret users,
I have the feeling that we had the same discussion but the closest I found is
which doesn't answer the particular question I have.
So, I wonder how you get zeros AFTER the decimal point from the backquote _expression_? say "3.000"?
yes? say `3,p=4` `3,p=-4`
I expected something like "3.0000" from this example but I got just "3". w= or zw= didn't help. (By the way, what do you call the part of a fractional number after the decimal point in English? I mean the part "14" of "3.14", for example.)
The ferret manual says that this is by design:
Currently I got stuck. I need character strings like "26.0" for potential density labels in my plots and filenames but I don't know how to generate them. (Okay, I do know some workarounds, which includes using SPAWN to call the unix/linux command "printf" or calling Ferret from within a shell script, but . . . )
As suggested in the above email thread, it would be nice if a comprehensive formatting is possible. For example,
`3,p=(F5.2)` -> " 3.00"
or perhaps
let mylabel = printf("%5.2f", someexpression)
Fortran or printf formatting would be nice.
Regards,
Ryo