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From: "Mike Wahler" <mkwahler AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setw & notation
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:15:01 -0700
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Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote in message
news:aa5dsg$80s87$1 AT ID-79865 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de...
>
> "Alan Didey" <a_didey AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:3CC59DBB DOT 1000201 AT hotmail DOT com...
>
> [snip]
>
> |
> | This program prints numbers without their fractional part (though
> | rounded not truncated), or if they are smaller than one, prints only the
> | first non-zero decimal place.  You have to calculate the precision
> | required to do this yourself.  Note the use of epsilon() - this is
> | important.
> |
> | #include <iostream>
> | #include <limits>
> | #include <iomanip>
> | #include <cmath>
> | using namespace std;
> |
> | int main()
> | {
> |      // remember the original format of the stream
> |      ios_base::fmtflags flags = cout.flags();
> |      streamsize prec = cout.precision();
> |
> |      // we never want scientific notation
> |      cout.setf(ios_base::fixed, ios_base::floatfield);
> |
> |      // my implementation won't ever print more than 18 decimal places
> |      for (double d=100000000000000.0; d>=1e-18; d/=10.0) {
> | if(d < 1)
> |     cout.precision(
> | // enough precision for one decimal place
> | static_cast<streamsize>(
> |     -log10(d) + 1 - numeric_limits<double>::epsilon()
> |     )
> | );
> | else // don't print fractional part of numbers greater than 1
> |     cout.precision(0);
> | cout << d << '\n';
> |      }
> |
> |      // force the output on to the screen
> |      cout.flush();
> |
> |      // restore the stream to its former glory
> |      cout.precision(prec);
> |      cout.setf(ios_base::fmtflags(0), ios_base::floatfield);
> | }
> |
> | Its output:
>
> [snip]
>
> |
> | 0.1
> | 0.01
> | 0.001
> | 0.0001
> | 0.00001
> | 0.000001
> | 0.0000001
> | 0.00000001
> | 0.000000001
> | 0.0000000001
> | 0.00000000001
> | 0.000000000001
> | 0.0000000000001
> | 0.00000000000001
> | 0.000000000000001
> | 0.0000000000000001
> | 0.00000000000000001
> | 0.000000000000000001
> |
> |
> [snip]
>
> Thanks. It is almost OK.
> The only thing I want to change is to see output as following :
>         0.1
>       0.01
>     0.001
>   0.0001
> 0.00001
> ............

std::streamsize wid(20 + 18);

...
for (double d=100000000000000.0; d>=1e-18; d/=10.0) {
...
     cout << setw(wid--) << d << '\n';

-Mike