Force to display decimal places?

I'm using format short to set up my display preference. I store values in a matrix and then use uitable to display it.

Quick example of how it currently is displayed: 49.2250 150 123.2500e-04

How I want it: 49.2250e0 150.0000e0 123.2500e-04

Is it possible to force this in uitable?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Sure, use sprintf.

doc sprintf

[Walter Roberson]

Additionally, note that uitable has no method of controlling the number of decimals for a field marked as being numeric, with the exception of declaring the field to use bank format. Sean's answer gets around this by storing strings in the uitable instead of numeric values. If you need the original numeric value back again, you will need to either retrieve it from the original data, or you will need to str2double() the string representation (which will give you an approximation of the original value.)