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From: seymour@milton.acs.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: problem with "pe" format
Message-ID: <4008@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 22:35:09 GMT
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Reply-To: seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
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there's also the case of using Exponent notation (E-format).
in standard fortran (ansi x3.9-1978 page 13-11) the ONLY way to
get other than a single zero to appear to the left of the decimal
point is via the P scale factor.
   E12.3   gives   0.270e+02  as output
 1PE12.3    gives  2.701e+01  as output
 2PE12.3    gives  27.012e+00   as output
(i believe) there is NO other way (without building strings of integers)
to get other than a single zero before that decimal point.
(the same argument applies if you want leading zeroes to the RIGHT of
the decimal point:    -1PE12.3 gives 0.027e+04  )
--dick