From: Bil Kleb Date: 2007-05-02T22:00:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Inverse scanf: finding format specifers of existing fields David A. Black wrote: > Hi -- Hi. > Output: > > [0.4577, 0.7728] > [-0.02345, 0.001232] The second output indicates that I failed to express my predicament clearly, as the numbers are no longer in exponential format? A brief re-cast: The original file has numbers of the form 5 0.4577 -2.345e-02 Something reads the numbers and spits out new numbers, but in exactly the same format as the original file, e.g., 8 0.7728 1.232e-03 I.e., I can't write the last number out as 0.001232 -- it has to be in exponential format with the same field lengths. Regards, -- Bil Kleb http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov