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From: fwebb@bbn.com (Fred Webb)
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Subject: Re: Formatting question
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Date: 24 Aug 90 12:33:14 GMT
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In article <1121@orange.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>
>I want to print out a number in a very compact format like dE-dd
>(d=digit), that is without the leading "0." in the mantissa.
>

Well, you probably can't get rid of the decimal point, but by
using SS,1P,E6.0 you'll get something like "1.E-36". I assume
none of your numbers will be negative, or else you need another
character position for the - sign (1P,E7.0).

(I just tried exactly this, with the Fortran compiler I maintain,
 and got the expected result.)

					-- Fred