Re: problems with decimal number display by PSPP

[John Darrington]

After a fair bit of effort, I have been unable to reproduce this problem.

So if this issue is to have any chance of getting fixed someone who is
experiencing it is going to  need to give us a backtrace.

Looking through the code, I consider the most likely function of interest
is  output_decimal in src/data/data-out.c - in particular this bit of code
seems most relevant:

      if (decimals > 0)
        {
          *p++ = style->decimal;
          p = mempcpy (p, &magnitude[integer_digits + 1], decimals);
        }

However I can't see anything actually wrong here.  I suggest that you
put a breakpoint here conditional upon *p == 0 ... hopefully that might
provide something of interest.

J'

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:13:58PM +0000, hector morada wrote:
      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.
     =================
     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
     
     
       

     x, y
     1, 2000
     2, 100
     3, 10
     4, 500
     5, 1000
     6, 50
     7, 1500
     8, 200
     9, 950
     10, 800