How to export data in scientific form

Question

I am having an issue about how to export data in its scientific form using Mathematica.

To be concrete, I define a list

alist = {2344. 1111111, 0.0002223344};
ScientificForm[%]
Export["test.dat", %]

but it turns out that doesn't work. Is there any other way to achieve this? Also, what can I do to control the number of digits exported?

Any idea?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '14 at 21:57

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Export["test.dat",
   NumberForm[
     alist, 
     NumberFormat -> (Row[{#1, "E", #3}] &), 
     ExponentFunction -> (3 Quotient[#, 3] &)
   ], 
   "Table"
]

(*   ==> {2.34411E3, 222.334E-6} *)

answered Mar 01 '14 at 21:57

Sjoerd C. de Vries

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I thought a similar thing is possible with CForm but I failed to set it as Listable. – Grzegorz Rut Mar 01 '14 at 22:31
@Sjoerd C. de Vries Why doesn't this work with DecimalForm ? – IntroductionToProbability Mar 13 '23 at 06:47

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