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From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: writeline and writedata
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:04:48 -0700
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Roman Pearce <rpearcea@gmail.com> writes:

> On Saturday, June 8, 2013 8:02:25 AM UTC+10, pluton wrote:
>> B:=plot(x,x=-1..1): # creation of the plot
>> A:=op(1,op(1,B)):   # counts the number of points in the plot
>> Is there a simple to achieve this?
>
> I would convert A to a list of rows and use the seq command:
>
> A := convert(A,listlist):
> seq( fprintf("Cfile.dat", "%10.6f\t%10.6f\n", op(i)) , i=A):
> close("Cfile.dat"):

That will give the most control, but here you could do

fprintf("file.dat", "%{c\t}10.6f\n", A);

See ?rtable_printf for the {} modifier; {c\t} means
use a tab as a column separator.

-- 
Joe Riel