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st: AW: Infix imports wrong numbers!
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: AW: Infix imports wrong numbers!
Date
Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:58:58 +0200
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Read the "ID" in as data type "double", as described in the help file for
-infix-.
HTH
Martin
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Betreff: st: Infix imports wrong numbers!
Hope it is not too odd a question: I have tried to find solutions to
this but could not manage to solve it by myself or surfing the net
I am using infix to import a dataset that has fixed column-content.
The problem is that infix seems "imprecise" in that it imports long
numbers mistaking the last digit, or averaging some variables between
two subsequent observations...
Here is an example:
consider the file test.xxx which is made of the following two lines:
018554079 00002
018554081 00002
I use the command:
infix ID 1-9 EMPTY 10-22 VAR1 23-27 using
test.xxx
what I obtain is two observations with ID == 018554080 !!!
what's wrong?
Thank you very much for your help
frank
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