printf question, leading zero in E format?

[bobm2005]

Whatever format I try in Printf, an 'E' format number nearly always
has a leading non-zero:-

1.2345E7

-9.3456E8 etc.

Is it possible to force it (printf) always to have leading zero?

Thus, the above becomes:-

0.12345E8

-0.93456E9

[Ben Pfaff]

bobm2005 <bo*******@postmaster.co.ukwrites:

Whatever format I try in Printf, an 'E' format number nearly always
has a leading non-zero:-

1.2345E7

-9.3456E8 etc.

Is it possible to force it (printf) always to have leading zero?

No. The fprintf specification says this:

e,E A double argument representing a floating-point number is
converted in the style [-]d.ddd e±dd, where there
is one digit (which is nonzero if the argument is
nonzero) before the decimal-point character and the
number of digits after it is equal to the precision [...]

So the digit before the decimal point is always nonzero if the
number to format is nonzero.
--
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Seeking industrial or academic position *outside California* in 2008

[Ron Blancarte]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:36:50 -0700 (while OU was sucking), bobm2005
wrote:

>Whatever format I try in Printf, an 'E' format number nearly always
has a leading non-zero:-

1.2345E7

-9.3456E8 etc.

Is it possible to force it (printf) always to have leading zero?

Thus, the above becomes:-

0.12345E8

-0.93456E9

Someone already said no to your question.

What I was going to recommend is that you could write your own. I
wrote my own for some embedded work I was doing (standard SPRINTF is a
memory/code hog). Here is the function, it could be modified to print
the numbers between 0 and 1 instead of 1 to 10.

RonB

// value = value to be printed
// total number of spaces to be occupied
// the z in "%zE"
void outputExp(float value, char total)
{ // # of digits to be printed AFTER decimal point
#define POST_DEC 6

// leading spaces of the
while(total 12){
out_putchar(' ');
--total;
}
total = 0;

// FIRST PRINT SIGN
if((*((char*)&value) & 0x80) == 0x80)
out_putchar('-');
else
out_putchar(' ');
*((char*)&value) &= 0x7F;

// ZERO CASE
if(value == 0)
out_putString("0.000000E+00");
else{
// NUMBER HAS A POSITVE EXPONENT
TF_3 = value;
if(value >= 10){
while(TF_3 >= 10){
TF_3 /= 10;
++total;
}
}
// NUMBER HAS A NEGATIVE EXPONENT
else if(value < 1){
while(TF_3 < 1){
TF_3 *= 10;
++total;
}
total = -total;
}

// TURN NUMBER INTO 7 DIGIT LONG
{
char i= 8-total;
TF_3 = 1;
if(i >= 10){
value *= 1e9;
i -= 9;
}
for(i; i 0; --i)
TF_3 *= 10;
value *= TF_3;
}
// PRINT CHAR BY CHAR
{
xdata long print = value + 5; // ROUNDING
xdata long div = 100000000;
while(div 10){
char ch = print / div;
out_putchar(ch + '0'); //CHAR PRINTER
if(div == 100000000)
out_putchar('.');
print -= (div * ch);
div /= 10;
}
out_putchar('E');
if(total < 0){
out_putchar('-');
total = -total;
}
else
out_putchar('+');
outputInt(total, 2, 1);
// this is my own Integer printer
}
}
}

[Old Wolf]

On Jun 8, 6:59 am, Ron Blancarte

void outputExp(float value, char total)
{
if((*((char*)&value) & 0x80) == 0x80)
out_putchar('-');
else
out_putchar(' ');
*((char*)&value) &= 0x7F;

What possessed you to write that monstrosity
instead of:
if ( value < 0 )
{
out_putchar('-');
value = -value;
}
else
out.putchar(' ');

BTW what is the purpose of "== 0x80" ? What else
could it equal besides that and 0?

[Barry Schwarz]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:59:06 -0500, Ron Blancarte
<[e-mail]:

>On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:36:50 -0700 (while OU was sucking), bobm2005
wrote:

>>Whatever format I try in Printf, an 'E' format number nearly always
has a leading non-zero:-

1.2345E7

-9.3456E8 etc.

Is it possible to force it (printf) always to have leading zero?

Thus, the above becomes:-

0.12345E8

-0.93456E9

Someone already said no to your question.

What I was going to recommend is that you could write your own. I
wrote my own for some embedded work I was doing (standard SPRINTF is a
memory/code hog). Here is the function, it could be modified to print
the numbers between 0 and 1 instead of 1 to 10.

RonB

// value = value to be printed
// total number of spaces to be occupied
// the z in "%zE"
void outputExp(float value, char total)
{ // # of digits to be printed AFTER decimal point
#define POST_DEC 6

// leading spaces of the
while(total 12){
out_putchar(' ');

Where is this function defined? Does it do something the standard
putchar() won't?

> --total;
}
total = 0;

// FIRST PRINT SIGN
if((*((char*)&value) & 0x80) == 0x80)
out_putchar('-');
else
out_putchar(' ');
*((char*)&value) &= 0x7F;

Why make the code dependent on some particular floating point
representation? You can compare value to 0.0 and run from there.

>
// ZERO CASE
if(value == 0)
out_putString("0.000000E+00");
else{
// NUMBER HAS A POSITVE EXPONENT
TF_3 = value;

Where is TF_3 defined?

> if(value >= 10){
while(TF_3 >= 10){
TF_3 /= 10;
++total;
}
}
// NUMBER HAS A NEGATIVE EXPONENT
else if(value < 1){
while(TF_3 < 1){
TF_3 *= 10;
++total;
}
total = -total;
}

// TURN NUMBER INTO 7 DIGIT LONG
{
char i= 8-total;
TF_3 = 1;
if(i >= 10){
value *= 1e9;
i -= 9;
}
for(i; i 0; --i)
TF_3 *= 10;
value *= TF_3;
}
// PRINT CHAR BY CHAR
{
xdata long print = value + 5; // ROUNDING
xdata long div = 100000000;
while(div 10){
char ch = print / div;
out_putchar(ch + '0'); //CHAR PRINTER
if(div == 100000000)
out_putchar('.');
print -= (div * ch);
div /= 10;
}
out_putchar('E');
if(total < 0){
out_putchar('-');
total = -total;
}
else
out_putchar('+');
outputInt(total, 2, 1);
// this is my own Integer printer
}
}
}

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