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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=ZH-CN link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hi Karin,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thank you for your reply. I tried several versions of ncl (6.1.2, 6.2.0, 6.3.0). They all got the same results. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>But I run the same script on other two Linux machines with ncl V6.1.2 and V6.2.0, and the zero appear. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I guess the problem might be related to the IBM_AIX machine I was using. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Jianghua<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"微软雅黑","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Karin Meier-Fleischer via ncl-talk<br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"微软雅黑","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>发送时间<span lang=EN-US>:</span></span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"微软雅黑","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> 2019</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"微软雅黑","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>年<span lang=EN-US>9</span>月<span lang=EN-US>12</span>日<span lang=EN-US> 17:30<br><br></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US>Hi Jianghua,<br><br>which NCL version are you running? Using version 6.6.2 works quite well:<br><br></span><tt><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#3333FF'>> ncl</span></tt><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF'><br><tt> Copyright (C) 1995-2019 - All Rights Reserved</tt><br><tt> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</tt><br><tt> NCAR Command Language Version 6.6.2</tt><br><tt> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</tt><br><tt> See <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.</tt><br><tt>ncl 0> a=new((/2,2/),float,-999.)</tt><br><tt>ncl 1> a=0.1</tt><br><tt>ncl 2> a(0,0)=-0.1</tt><br><tt>ncl 3> write_matrix(a,"2f5.2",True)</tt><br><tt> </tt><br><tt>-0.10 0.10</tt><br><tt> 0.10 0.10</tt><br><tt> </tt><br><tt>ncl 4> quit</tt></span><span lang=EN-US><br><br>-Karin</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Am 12.09.19 um 10:32 schrieb Wan Jianghua via ncl-talk:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi all,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>I try to print a nicely formatted text file with “write_matrix” function, but the result is not satisfactory.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>When the absolute value of the number is less than 1, the zero before the decimal point is omitted. Is there any possible way to print it out? Thanks!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>My test script:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>a=new((/2,2/),float,-999.)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>a=0.1</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>a(0,0)=-0.1</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>write_matrix(a,"2f5.2",True)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>the result:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>-.10 .10</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>.10 .10</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><img border=0 width=128 height=70 id="图片_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D56992.DFB41380"></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sincerely,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jianghua</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span lang=EN-US>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US>ncl-talk mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US>List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>