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Re: st: .tab list showing numbers in exponential form. Can that be changed?
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Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
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Re: st: .tab list showing numbers in exponential form. Can that be changed?
Date
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:15:18 +0500
For my
format %5.0g pid
I have the data in editor as 1.0e+07
and the same pid is 10016872.
for
format %12.0g yourvariable
So give it a try and check what happens.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have ids for a table that are 8 or 9 digits (format long%12.0g) (e.g.,
> "72009070" of " "720110701".
>
> To quickly inspect what ids are present I use .tab <id>. The table shows
> those ids using exponential notation (e.g., "7.20e+07") for all ids, and
> therefore I cannot differentiate which is which.
>
> Is there a way to force the table to list the ids in non-exponential form?
> Alternatively, can I use another command to do the same thing.
>
> Ben
>
> Ben Hoen
> Principal Research Associate
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Muhammad Anees
Assistant Professor
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Attock 43600, Pakistan
www.aneconomist.com
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