Re: print() precision

Thanks Wei and Dennis.

It works. But if the variable is pre-assigned without 'd' at the end,
would 'todouble()' somehow do it? I have

begin
    a = 0.4071155678
    b = todouble(a)
    print(b)
end

and I got something not quite precise:

 Copyright (C) 1995-2010 - All Rights Reserved
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 NCAR Command Language Version 5.2.1
 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
 See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.

Variable: b
Type: double
Total Size: 8 bytes
            1 values
Number of Dimensions: 1
Dimensions and sizes: [1]
Coordinates:
(0) 0.4071155786514282

On 07/31/2013 12:07 PM, Dennis Shea wrote:
> xf = 0.4071155678
> xd = 0.4071155678d
>
> print("xf="+xf +" : "+sprintf("%13.6f", xf))
> print("xd="+xd +" : "+sprintf("%13.10f", xd))
>
>
> ==============
>
> (0) xf=0.407116 : 0.407116
> (0) xd=0.407116 : 0.4071155678
>
>
> On 7/31/13 9:57 AM, Wei Huang wrote:
>> Fan,
>>
>> Try
>>
>> print(0.407115567890123456789d)
>>
>> Wei
>>
>> huangwei@ucar.edu
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Fan Fang <Fan.Fang@nasa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> It appear print() only does floats. IS there an easy way to print out
>>> just what is fed?
>>>
>>> -Fan
>>>
>>> begin
>>> print(0.4071155678)
>>> end
>>>
>>> Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
>>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>>> NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1
>>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>>> (0) 0.4071156
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