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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: append() vs. write()
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:35:23 -0500
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On 01/10/2012 05:15 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 04:48 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 01/10/2012 11:17 AM, Benjamin Trendelkamp-Schroer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to write a method that can write possibly large matrices of
>>> floating point numbers in scientific notation to human readable ascii
>>> files. I want to be able to specify the formatting of the floating
>>> point numbers usins format strings like "%1.8e" or "%2.5f".
>>>
> Oops! java.utilFormatter Duh. Sorry, please ignore previous post.

Well,maybe not all is lost.
PrintWriter does have a printf( String format, Object... args).
So I guess you can lose the DecimalFormat for the printf.