[Gretl-devel] Re: printf: ignore nan values in a matrix

On 16/02/2024 17:38, Artur T. wrote: > Hi Gretl community, > > I am wondering whether there is a way to ignore printing NA values in > a matrix when calling the printf command > > Suppose you have a matrix like this: > >                 Model=1     Model=2     Model=3     Model=4 >        INT          nan       -0.12       -0.17       -0.06 >         pv          nan        0.00        0.00        0.09 >          U        -0.07       -0.09       -0.11         nan >         pv         0.00        0.00        0.00         nan > intercept      -176.03     -108.49        6.37     -203.84 >         pv         0.00        0.00        0.00        0.00 >      l_INC         6.79        4.28         nan        7.81 >         pv         0.00        0.00         nan        0.00 >      trend        -0.01       -0.01       -0.01       -0.01 >         pv         0.00        0.00        0.00        0.00 > > but you would like to replace all nan values by "" (empty string or no > value) for better readability. This should not be the default, but > maybe there exists some format argument of which I am not aware of. How about this? <hansl> set seed 1234 C = muniform(5,3) C[2,3] = NA C[3,1] = NA tmp = sprintf("%6.2f", C) new = strsub(tmp, "nan", "   ") printf "%s", new </hansl>