How to print a complex number without percent sign in Scilab?

Question

I tried this

a = 1+3*%i;
disp("a = "+string(a))

I got a = 1+%i*3 , but what I want is a = 1. + 3.i

So is there any method in Scilab to print a complex number without the percent sign?

Answer 1

Similarly to Matlab, you can format the output string by including the real and imaginary parts separately.

mprintf('%g + %gi\n', real(a) , imag(a))

However, that looks pretty ugly when the imaginary part is negative. I suggest writing a formatting function:

function s = complexstring(a)
    if  imag(a)>=0 then
        s = sprintf('%g+%gi', real(a) , imag(a))
    else 
        s = sprintf('%g%gi', real(a) , imag(a))
    end
endfunction

Examples:

disp('a = '+complexstring(1+3*%i))
disp('b = '+complexstring(1-3*%i))

Output:

a = 1+3i
b = 1-3i