How do I force the output format of arrayfun() to be "short"?

How do I force the output format of arrayfun() to be "short"?

The code and results to illustrate my issue:

format; %this is the default matlab output format I think
axlim = [ 0.1  50; 0.1  7; 50  2000]
format shortG;
axlim
lbl1 = arrayfun(@(lo,hi) sprintf('(%d,%d)', lo, hi), axlim(:,1), axlim(:,2), 'UniformOutput', 0)

axlim =

     1.0e+03 *

      0.0001    0.0500
      0.0001    0.0070
      0.0500    2.0000

axlim =

            0.1           50
            0.1            7
             50         2000

lbl1 = 

      '(1.000000e-01,50)'
      '(1.000000e-01,7)'
      '(50,2000)'

The result that I need is:

lbl1 = 

      '(0.1 ,50)'
      '(0.1,7)'
      '(50,2000)'

Kind of related to this https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/156758 but I need an extra step of forcing the output format to be simple and short

Answer 1

[Adam]

lbl1 = arrayfun(@(lo,hi) sprintf('(%g,%g)', lo, hi), axlim(:,1), axlim(:,2), 'UniformOutput', 0)

The help...

doc sprintf

contains a section on the formatSpec and the different conversions you can use. %g is the compact version.

It is totally independent of the format you are using - it is entirely dictated by what is in your sprintf since it is a string that you are outputting.