Re: problems with decimal number display by PSPP

John,

I am sending you three files:

test_dec.csv is the small data file of two variables with 10 observations
test-decimal.sps the syntax I used to produce the output shown in test-decimal-scrsht.doc

It seems that the special character appears after the decimal point if the absolute value of the number to be displayed is less than 1.

But I notice that when I save the output into an HTML file, the special characters disappear! Seems I do not have to change my OS!

I hope this helps!

Thanks for your kind attention.
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I am using Window 7 Home premium
PRAM: 4 GB
system type: 64-bit OSrocessor: Intel(r) Core(TM)2 Duo T6600 @ 2.20 GHz

On Thursday, April 15, 2021, 12:10:48 AM GMT+8, John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:

Recently we have had several similar reports, but to date nobody has said
how to reproduce this problem.

Can you post the exact syntax, including the data definition, which you
used when this problem occurred?

So far as I'm aware all the people who have reported this problem have been
using Windows. It doesn't happen with other systems. So until this
problem is fixed the best workaround is to use a different OS.

J'

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:33:31AM +0000, hector morada wrote:
Hi,

Ihope you can help me with a particular difficulty in using PSPP. I cannot control thedecimal output of PSPP as it presents numbers in decimal form. The first zeroafter the decimal point is preceded by a special character - a rectangle with somedots inside. Please see the decimal numbers under the "Missing"column in the image I attached for clarity.??

Itried changing the Format specs but it did not go away!

Is this something "natural" in PSPP? Or there are ways to eliminatesaid especial symbol?

Thank you so much!

Hector B Morada

From:	hector morada
Subject:	Re: problems with decimal number display by PSPP
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:13:58 +0000 (UTC)