Question: Suppressing scientific "e" notation in Maple on the command line

Hi everyone.

I have a very particular situation here: I'm running a series of programs that grab string output from command line Maple as plaintext. For this reason, I don't have the normal Numerical Format dropdowns, etc., available to me for this issue.

I'm looking for a way to force Maple to output e.g. 0.000001 as 0.000001, rather than ".1e-5", because with plaintext output, it's difficult to distinguish that scientific notation "e" from Euler's number "e". I'm hoping that since large rational numbers seem to be exempt from Maple's e-notation, perhaps there exists a function to suppress this type of output in favor of normal floating point output with a decent number of significant digits. I was thinking something along the lines of MATLAB's "format long" (but not exactly), if anyone is familiar with that.

I've searched for a solution to this problem, but I haven't found any hits. My apologies if this issue has been fielded before. Thanks!

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