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

Answer 1

There are two simple solutions:

1. using the sprintf function:

   str = sprintf('%.4f', myNumber);

2. using Java-based formatting, which is much more powerful (more information):

   str = char(java.text.DecimalFormat('#.0000').format(myNumber));