Difference: PrintingInAMPL (5 vs. 6)

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Displaying and Printing in AMPL

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  When we change the display_precision to 5 significant digits, the displayed TotalCost and the cost calculated by using the displayed Amount values differ. If you are using rounded solution values, make sure to check the objective value before quoting your solution.
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Displaying Information

You have already seen how to display a variable using the display command. We can also display AMPL expressions the same way, e.g., we might want to see how supply we are using in a transportation problem.

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  Often when we display something (like variable values) many of the resulting numbers are 0 and we are only interested in the non-zero numbers. To stop any rows of zeros being displayed you can set the omit_zero_rows option:

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 option omit_zero_cols 1;
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  You can also force display to use either tables or a single column by using the display_1col option. This option will use one column if the number of values to display is less than display_1col. The initial value of display_1col is 20, so any display command that shows less than 20 values will be displayed as a column. Setting display_1col to 0 forces display to use tables whenever possible.
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Printing Information

By playing with the display options we can get the display command to format output in a nice way. However, we can also decide exactly what is displayed by using print and printf.

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  The print command only writes strings to the output.

The printf command allows you to print text and values together in a format you can control. It uses the same printf format as C and Matlab.

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  You can print over sets or set expressions as well
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Printing to a File

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All the output commands can be directed to a file. Adding > <filename&gt to the end of an output command creates the file with the given name and writes to it. Subsequent output commands append output to the file by adding >> <filename> to the commands. You should close your file when done so you can open it with another program. This is very useful for saving your solutions (in a useful format with printf), for example
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All the output commands can be directed to a file. Adding > <filename> to the end of an output command creates the file with the given name and writes to it. Subsequent output commands append output to the file by adding >> <filename> to the commands. You should close your file when done so you can open it with another program. This is very useful for saving your solutions (in a useful format with printf), for example
 
# brewery.run
reset;

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  display TotalCost >> brewery.out;
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printf {s in SUPPLY_NODES, d in DEMAND_NODES : Flow[s, d] > 0} 'Ship %d crates of beer from warehouse %s to pub %s\n', Flow[s, d], s, d >> brewery.out;
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printf {s in SUPPLY_NODES, d in DEMAND_NODES : Flow[s, d] > 0} 'Ship %d crates of beer from warehouse %s to pub %s\n', Flow[s, d], s, d >> brewery.out;
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Running brewery.run in AMPL creates a file brewery.out.

-- MichaelOSullivan - 02 Mar 2008

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Running brewery.run in AMPL creates a file brewery.out:
TRANSPORTATION SOLUTION -- Non-zero shipments
TotalCost = 8600

 
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Ship 300 crates of beer from warehouse A to pub 1 Ship 700 crates of beer from warehouse A to pub 5 Ship 200 crates of beer from warehouse B to pub 1 Ship 900 crates of beer from warehouse B to pub 2 Ship 1800 crates of beer from warehouse B to pub 3 Ship 200 crates of beer from warehouse B to pub 4
 
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-- MichaelOSullivan - 02 Mar 2008
 
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