Is it possible in matlab to explicitly format the output numbers?

Question

I know about MATLAB's format long, format short, eng ... and so on. But short and long will always display a predefined number of decimals, with an exponent, and for example, format bank will display always 2 decimals.

Is there an option to put your explicit format, in a "fortran way", like f8.3 --> 1234.678 ?

I'm looking for a way to display numbers with 4 decimal points, and the rest ahead of the decimal point, with no exponent.

Answer 1

According to the Matlab documentation which is available on their website you can use

format shortG

to set the display format for the output to n.4.

Answer 2

I don't know of a way to specify a global format of the type you want. sprintf('%15.4f', x) or num2str(x, '%15.4f') do what you're looking for, if you don't mind calling them explicitly each time.