I know about MATLAB's format long, format short, eng ... and so on. But short and long will always display a predefined number of decimals, with an exponent, and for example, format bank will display always 2 decimals.
Is there an option to put your explicit format, in a "fortran way", like f8.3 --> 1234.678 ?
I'm looking for a way to display numbers with 4 decimal points, and the rest ahead of the decimal point, with no exponent.
According to the documentation it does allow you to format the number.
Also, the formatting is well documented as well.
I don't know of a way to specify a global format of the type you want. sprintf('%15.4f', x) or num2str(x, '%15.4f') do what you're looking for, if you don't mind calling them explicitly each time.
I just use sprintf and num2str like mtrw mentioned. sprintf() is meant for multiple scalar arguments of various types (it works w/ matrices, but not really in a clear way). num2str() is meant for use with a single matrix.
The closest I could come up with, is:
format bank
It will give you no E, and 2 decimal places.
try to read
help format
to look for other options there (I don't use Matlab anymore... switched to Free Software :) )