Trouble with printing to a file

[altheastronut]

Hello, I'm almost done with my program however I'm having trouble getting what I want printed to a file. I'm familiar with the printf function and what I want is to print out to the file in scientific notation, which would be %E if I were using printf. Is there something similar when writing out to a file. Also when using printf you can choose how many decimal places you need using %.2f or something like that, I also need to use something similar to that when writing out to a file. Here is how I have been writing out to a file. Can someone please help.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <fstream>
#define MINMASS  (0.0000515053396)
#define pi (3.14159265)
#define JUPVOL (6.98509E9 * 6.98509E9 * 6.98509E9 * (4.00/3.00) * pi)
#define SOLM2G (1.98892E33)
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
   double j1, j2, j3, j4; 
   ofstream file;
   file.open("big.in");          //open a file

  srand ( time(NULL) );
  srand48(time(NULL));
                         

  j1 = drand48() * 0.013365;    //mass needs to be between 5.15053396E-5 and 0.013365 

while(j1 <  MINMASS)
    {
      srand48(time(NULL));
      j1 = drand48() * 0.013365;
    }
 file<<" JOVIAN1     m="<<j1<<" r=20.D0 d="<<(j1/JUPVOL)*SOLM2G  ;


  file.close();                  //close it
   return 0;

}

[Ancient Dragon]

functions in <ioman>. Here are other values that can be used for setioflags function.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	float n = 123.456F;
	// output float with 5 decimal places
	cout << setprecision(5)  << setiosflags(ios_base::fixed) << n <<  endl;
	return 0;
}

[altheastronut]

Thanks for your reply, I changed my code with your suggestion and at first I thought it was working the way I wanted, but it didn't. The first value that was written out seems fine, the second value that gets printed out seems to be modified by the specification of the first. What I am expecting to get is:
JOVIAN1 m=9.26272836047433573E-03 r=20.D0 d=13.72

using:

file<<" JOVIAN1     m="<< setprecision(17) << setiosflags(ios_base::scientific) <<j1<<" r=20.D0 d=" << setprecision(2)  << setiosflags(ios_base::fixed) <<(j1/JUPVOL)*SOLM2G;

what I get is: JOVIAN1 m=9.26272836047433573e-03 r=20.D0 d=13

The second value doesn't have two decimal places. The smaller problem, and it may be a little picky is when using printf %E gives you an upper case E for the exponential, is there any way of doing this? I'm going to run this file into a simulation program and the format for the simulation shows that it uses an upper case E. Thanks again.

[altheastronut]

I figured out the E problem, I'm still working on the decimal problem.

[Daishi]

Try setting the precision to 4, instead of 2.

And I'm really curious as to what this program does...? Does it have to do with Jovian orbits...?

-Fredric

[altheastronut]

I tried changing the precision, but what happens is if the random number is greater than nine, it alters the number of decimal places. So if it's set for 2 and the number is 10.XXXX it only prints out 10 If the number is 9.XXXXX it only prints out 9.X. I don't know what's going on here. I thought set precision was supposed to only effect the numbers after the decimal place.

Yeah, it's a program that randomly generates the mass of a jovian planet from Neptunes mass up to 14 times Jupiters mass, and from the mass it calculates the density of the planet. Then I'll run the file in a simulation and see which orbits are stable. It's actually pretty cool, I just have to have to get everything up and running correctly.

[Ancient Dragon]

for floats look again at the cout line in my original post.

[altheastronut]

for floats look again at the cout line in my original post.

The only differences I see between what you have and I have are the F in your defining your float, and the endl; at the end. From what I read endl; ends the line and flushes the stream. I flushed the stream between the two outputs (since I don't end the line after the first) with flush, and I still have a problem with the decimal output.

file<<" JOVIAN1     m="<< setprecision(17) << setiosflags(ios_base::uppercase) << setiosflags(ios_base::scientific) 
     << j1 <<" r=20.D0 d=" << flush << setprecision(2) << setiosflags(ios_base::fixed) << ((j1/JUPVOL) * SOLM2G) << endl;

Even when I do use endl at the end of each output separating them by line it doesn't give me a decimal with two places. If I don't have the first input at all it works just fine printing out two decimal places.

[Ancient Dragon]

what is the desired output?

JOVIAN1 m=8.08181550000000040E+001 r=20.D0 d=112595.65

if that last number is what you want, then you have to remove the scientific flag. You can combine some of those setflags by using | operator.

file<<" JOVIAN1     m="<< setprecision(17) << setiosflags(ios_base::uppercase | ios_base::scientific) 
     << j1 <<" r=20.D0 d=" << resetiosflags(ios_base::scientific) << setprecision(2) << setiosflags(ios_base::fixed) << ((j1/JUPVOL) * SOLM2G) << endl;

Also -- srand() (and its variants) should only be called once at the very betinning of the program. you should remove it from that loop.

[altheastronut]

Awesome, I want to thank you again for all your help, I learned a whole lot from it. I have never used anything we had gone through in this post. Have a great day!