output formatting
I am a novice and I am using APL to calculate the points for a surface. The output will go to another program. The goal is to write a matrix, with the correct number of rows and columns, to a file. Elements should be separated by and rows should be separated by . I have found that the output is formatted in an unexpected way. Test case to write a matrix with 2 rows of 50 columns. Is there any way to write a matrix with correct shape to a file when rows exceed 80 characters? I have tried the following: Method 1 script_1.apl: - 2 50⍴⍳100 - apl < script_1.apl apl < script_1.apl > out_1.txt Writes welcome banner, elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and four messages about end-of-input and a goodbye message and also writes to stderr. Method 2 apl -f script_1.apl apl -f script_1.apl > out_2.txt Writes welcome banner, elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and a goodbye message and remains in 'apl' unless stdout is redirected to a file or )OFF added to script. Method 3 script_2.apl: - #! /usr/bin/apl --script --OFF 2 50⍴⍳100 - ./script_2.apl ./script_2.apl > out_3.txt Must add )OFF to script or use --OFF. Writes elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and a blank line. I would like two rows of 50 elements but output file looks like this: - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 - -- Stephen Lewis
Re: output formatting
Try adding the option "--PW 1000" (or any large number less than 1). That will set the print width to huge. The tr utility with the -s option can compress repeated spaces into a single space. sed '$d' will kill the last line. So something like apl --PW 500 --eval "2 70⍴⍳140" | tr -s ' ' | sed '$d' should work. On 9/9/23 19:07, Stephen Lewis via Bugs and suggestions for GNU APL wrote: I am a novice and I am using APL to calculate the points for a surface. The output will go to another program. The goal is to write a matrix, with the correct number of rows and columns, to a file. Elements should be separated by and rows should be separated by . I have found that the output is formatted in an unexpected way. Test case to write a matrix with 2 rows of 50 columns. Is there any way to write a matrix with correct shape to a file when rows exceed 80 characters? I have tried the following: Method 1 script_1.apl: - 2 50⍴⍳100 - apl < script_1.apl apl < script_1.apl > out_1.txt Writes welcome banner, elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and four messages about end-of-input and a goodbye message and also writes to stderr. Method 2 apl -f script_1.apl apl -f script_1.apl > out_2.txt Writes welcome banner, elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and a goodbye message and remains in 'apl' unless stdout is redirected to a file or )OFF added to script. Method 3 script_2.apl: - #! /usr/bin/apl --script --OFF 2 50⍴⍳100 - ./script_2.apl ./script_2.apl > out_3.txt Must add )OFF to script or use --OFF. Writes elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and a blank line. I would like two rows of 50 elements but output file looks like this: - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 - OpenPGP_0xDA6C0193083E.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: output formatting
If you change your printing width APL may not print the overflow of each line as a separate line. tmp←2 50 ⍴ ⍳ 100 ⎕pw←225 tmp 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 It might be better to use apl to write your out put file: )copy 5 DALY/export DUMPED 2023-07-17 17:07:29 (GMT-4) NEW )COPY_ONCE workspace: 5 DALY/utf8 DUMPED 2023-07-17 16:44:54 (GMT-4) NEW )COPY_ONCE workspace: 5 DALY/utl DUMPED 2023-08-07 15:46:53 (GMT-4) tmp←2 50 ⍴ ⍳ 100 tmp export∆array '/home/dalyw/staging/tmp.txt' 0 file tmp.txt has a tab character between each datum rather than a space. It it must be a space you can modify export∆array. w On 9/9/23 19:07, Stephen Lewis via Bugs and suggestions for GNU APL wrote: I am a novice and I am using APL to calculate the points for a surface. The output will go to another program. The goal is to write a matrix, with the correct number of rows and columns, to a file. Elements should be separated by and rows should be separated by . I have found that the output is formatted in an unexpected way. Test case to write a matrix with 2 rows of 50 columns. Is there any way to write a matrix with correct shape to a file when rows exceed 80 characters? I have tried the following: Method 1 script_1.apl: - 2 50⍴⍳100 - apl < script_1.apl apl < script_1.apl > out_1.txt Writes welcome banner, elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and four messages about end-of-input and a goodbye message and also writes to stderr. Method 2 apl -f script_1.apl apl -f script_1.apl > out_2.txt Writes welcome banner, elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and a goodbye message and remains in 'apl' unless stdout is redirected to a file or )OFF added to script. Method 3 script_2.apl: - #! /usr/bin/apl --script --OFF 2 50⍴⍳100 - ./script_2.apl ./script_2.apl > out_3.txt Must add )OFF to script or use --OFF. Writes elements in 4 row matrix with spurious extra characters and a blank line. I would like two rows of 50 elements but output file looks like this: - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 -
