<div dir="ltr"><div>Use the math script functions (<a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/mathfunctions.html">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/mathfunctions.html</a>), in particular, math_format(). Use a C-language style format statement. For your case, something like '%3.1f' or '%4.2f' (make sure to include the quotes) would give you what you want.<br><br></div>Jeff Duda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Thomas Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ter@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">ter@hawaii.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Aloha GrADS Users, <div><br></div><div>I am displaying my maximum values on a plot where they occur. The values are all real numbers, so they are like 6.92051, 12.048, etc. They seem to be 7 characters long at the most. My script code looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div>'set string 1 t1 8.5'</div><div>'draw string 'xx' 'yy' 'val</div><div><br></div><div>where xx and yy are the coordinates where I want to plot and val is the value that I'm plotting. </div><div><br></div><div>What I want to do is have grads plot 6.9 or 12.0 instead of 6.92051 or 12.048. Is there a way to specify how many characters of a string I display, or restrict my values to display only one digit after the decimal point? I would settle for 6.92 if I had to display 4 characters.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the help,</div><div>Tom</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Tom Robinson<br>Treasurer - Graduate Student Organization <br>Secretary - Student Athletic Fee Committee <br>Graduate Student - Department of Atmospheric Science <br></div></div></div></div>
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