[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: CSV file significant digits

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Mon Jan 23 16:01:30 EST 2012


I'm pretty sure it's just as trivial to provide an option to the user :).

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Is there any downside to hard coding it to some bigger number, such as 12
> digits?  That should be safe and trivial, shouldn’t it?
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> Let me know, and I will write up bug reports.
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> Alan
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> From: Robert Maynard [mailto:robert.maynard at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:03 PM
> To: Scott, W Alan
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] CSV file significant digits
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> The precision is currently hard coded I would recommend submitting a bug
> that the precision become a user controlled variable.
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> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
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> I have a user that is trying to write a spreadsheet to a .csv file.
> Although the spreadsheet displays (and can display) a large number of
> significant digits, when this is written to a .CSV file the precision is
> pretty poor.
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> Is there a way to increase the precision of the data in a .CSV file?
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> To replicate, just open wavelet, display in a spreadsheet file, change the
> spreadsheet file to have more precision than 6 characters, and File/Export
> this to a .csv file.  The .csv file holds only 6 characters of precision for
> each variable.
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> Alan
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