Re: pspp-1.6.0 released, review

[Ben Pfaff]

I just remembered that there's a setting for whether to display
leading zeros ("SET LEADZERO" in syntax), that PSPP does not yet
implement. Maybe I should implement it. The default is still to leave
them out, though.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 4:12 PM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the comment.
>
> The ".086" style without a leading zero is an SPSS peculiarity that
> PSPP reproduces. When PSPP writes output in any of its own formats, it
> uses this style for compatibility. But when PSPP writes output to a
> spreadsheet format, it's writing the numerical value of the numbers,
> which the spreadsheet program itself then displays, and it's normal
> for spreadsheet programs (and most programs) to include a leading
> zero.
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 3:38 PM someone <maffydoit@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I got a chance to finish reviewing the windows version of 1.6.  I looked at 
> > frequencies, means, correlation, scatterplot, regression. They all work, 
> > and they all give the same results they did in the previous version. Very 
> > good.
> >
> > One comment. I didn't notice before, but for correlation and regression, 
> > when the results are displayed in the results window, the numbers are like 
> > this:  .086  that is, no zero in front of the decimal place. I then 
> > exported the result. When I open the file with a text editor, again, no 
> > zero in front of the decimal place. When I opened the file with my 
> > spreadsheet program, libre office, there is a zero there, which I assume 
> > libre office put there.
> >
> > Not a big deal, since libre office reads it okay. I don't know whether it's 
> > something to fix.