On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 01:20:14 +0200, Francesco Potortì wrote: > octave> format long > octave> a=1234567890123 > a = 1234567890123 > octave> save a a > octave> save -ascii a a > octave> quit > $ cat a > 1.23456789e+12
True, but this is not a bug, this is the required behavior for Matlab compatibility. Note that save -ascii is the Matlab compatible way of saving data in a plain text format, while save -text (which is also the default) uses Octave's own plain text format. Use fprintf if you want more control over how data is represented as text. So for compatibility, Octave has to save in a fixed floating-point precision format with -ascii. You can use save -ascii -double to get twice the precision. This option works and is Matlab compatible but doesn't appear to be documented at all in Octave. These formats and options could certainly be documented better. I would take up the issue of improving the documentation upstream, but otherwise there's not much to do about this. -- mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
