output formatting

2023-09-09 Thread Stephen Lewis via Bugs and suggestions for GNU APL
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 fo

Re: output formatting

2023-09-09 Thread Chris Moller
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

Re: output formatting

2023-09-09 Thread Bill Daly
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