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

[Scott, W Alan]

You guys are the greatest.   Thx.

-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:31 PM
To: Scott, W Alan
Cc: Robert Maynard; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: CSV file significant digits

Alan,

This issue has been fixed in git-next. We'll have it merged into master soon. The user is shown options to change the precision and using scientific notation when saving data as CSV.

http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12705

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's just as trivial to provide an option to the user :).
>
> Utkarsh
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> 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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