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Dear all,

I like to append all weather files in a single file, so I use dlmwrite function here. However, the format in the single file did not match up with the original files, even I address the 'precision.' Please advice me. 

Thanks,
Michael 

The original file format:
  2.0040000e+03   1.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   2.1210000e+02   0.0000000e+00   2.7155000e+02   2.4000000e+01   9.7640000e+04   3.4985847e-06
   2.0040000e+03   1.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00   3.0000000e+01   0.0000000e+00   2.1140000e+02   0.0000000e+00   2.7155000e+02   2.4000000e+01   9.7640000e+04   3.4985847e-06


The single file format after the process of &quot;dlmwrite&quot;
2004	1	0	0	0	212.1	0	271.55	24	97640	3.498585e-06
2004	1	0	30	0	211.4	0	271.55	24	97640	3.498585e-06


Here is my code to take care of my purposes:

delete('/Users/cks/Documents/Elora/weather/functions/Elora_met04_08_class.dat')
dlmwrite('Elora_met04_08_class.dat',Elora_met04_class,'-append','precision','%0.7g','delimiter','\t');
dlmwrite('Elora_met04_08_class.dat',Elora_met05_class,'-append','precision','%0.7g','delimiter','\t');
dlmwrite('Elora_met04_08_class.dat',Elora_met06_class,'-append','precision','%0.7g','delimiter','\t');
dlmwrite('Elora_met04_08_class.dat',Elora_met07_class,'-append','precision','%0.7g','delimiter','\t');
dlmwrite('Elora_met04_08_class.dat',Elora_met08_class,'-append','precision','%0.7g','delimiter','\t');
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