Re: st: Decimal Precision with Destring

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Mon, 19/4/10, Sutton, Bennett W. wrote:
> I am insheet-ing a .csv file with decimal precision set at
> 15 places in excel.  But after insheeting into stata,
> the series are data type double, but only have precision to
> 10 places.  I'm working with hyperinflation countries
> and the lack of precision is producing some incorrect
> results in calculations.

In the example below, -insheet- results in a precision of 
15 digits that you require. Maybe something went wrong in the
conversion from Excel to .csv?

*--------- begin example -----------
clear
input double x
123456789012345
end
format x %20.15g
di %20.15g x

tempfile a
outsheet using `a'

clear
insheet using `a'

di %20.15g x
*----------- end example -----------

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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