Format of numeric values in Disp command

I have a display command of form pasted below. The u1star values are printed as #.####e-109. I just want these numbers printed to 4 decimal places and not to use the e-## format. How do i use the commands below to achieve this? Thank you.

T=table(results(:,1), results(:,2), results(:,3), ...
    results(:,4), results(:,5), results(:,6));
header={'u2_fixed', 'x_initial', 'u1_initial', 'xstar', 'u1star', 'ystar'};
T.Properties.VariableNames = header;
disp(T);

[Star Strider]

Tables inherit the current format setting from the environment, so changing that can change the wasy table clements are displayed. However with extremely large or small values (such as something on the order of I doubt there is much you can do about that, unless you sant to display them as 0.0000 or some such. Experiment with the format setting and see what works for you.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

round(T{:,:}, 4)

Answer 2

[Joe Apaloo]

Yes, I want the answer printed to the screen as 0.0000. I have tried "format short", "format shortg" but it did not work.

round(T{:,:}, 4)

also placed after

T=table(results(:,1), results(:,2), results(:,3), ...
    results(:,4), results(:,5), results(:,6));

does not work.

[Walter Roberson]

Are all the columns in the table numeric? If so then the round() command I showed should work, provided that you are not using too old of a MATLAB.

>> T = array2table(rand(10,5))

T =

  10×5 table

           Var1                  Var2                 Var3                  Var4                 Var5       
    __________________    __________________    _________________    __________________    _________________

     0.609866648422558     0.167927145682257    0.096730025780867     0.453797708726919    0.399257770613576
     0.617666389588455     0.978680649641159    0.818148553859625     0.432391503783462    0.526875830508296
     0.859442305646212     0.712694471678914    0.817547092079286     0.825313795402046    0.416799467930787
     0.805489424529686     0.500471624154843    0.722439592366842     0.083469814858914    0.656859890973707
     0.576721515614685     0.471088374541939    0.149865442477967     0.133171007607162    0.627973359190104
     0.182922469414914    0.0596188675796392    0.659605252908307     0.173388613119006    0.291984079961715
     0.239932010568717     0.681971904149063    0.518594942510538     0.390937802323736     0.43165117024872
     0.886511933076101    0.0424311375007417    0.972974554763863      0.83137974283907    0.015487125636019
    0.0286741524641061    0.0714454646006424    0.648991492712356      0.80336439160244    0.984063724379154
     0.489901388512224     0.521649842464284    0.800330575352401    0.0604711791698936    0.167168409914656

>> round(T{:,:},4)

ans =

                    0.6099                    0.1679                    0.0967                    0.4538                    0.3993
                    0.6177                    0.9787                    0.8181                    0.4324                    0.5269
                    0.8594                    0.7127                    0.8175                    0.8253                    0.4168
                    0.8055                    0.5005                    0.7224                    0.0835                    0.6569
                    0.5767                    0.4711                    0.1499                    0.1332                     0.628
                    0.1829                    0.0596                    0.6596                    0.1734                     0.292
                    0.2399                     0.682                    0.5186                    0.3909                    0.4317
                    0.8865                    0.0424                     0.973                    0.8314                    0.0155
                    0.0287                    0.0714                     0.649                    0.8034                    0.9841
                    0.4899                    0.5216                    0.8003                    0.0605                    0.1672

Answer 3

[Joe Apaloo]

The strange thing is that when I print results before the series of commants for the disp I get

results =

0.1000 3.0000 1.0000 239.4717 0.0000 -204.1148

which is what I want in the disp comand.

[Walter Roberson]

Unless results was a cell array, round(T{:,:},4) will work.

Note that using that will not modify T and will not affect what you see with the variable browser -- but your question was about what is seen with disp() not about the variable browser and not about storing the rounded versions.

Answer 4

[Joe Apaloo]

Thank you very much Star and Walter. Cheers.