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Bob_Schor

Preserve Precision in Excel Easy Table

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The Report Generation Toolkit includes Excel Easy Table that allows either Text (2D String Arrays) or Numeric (2D Dbl Arrays) to be written to Excel.  The function is written as a Polymorphic function to handle the two types of input.  However, when processing numeric input, an inner function called "Append Numeric Table to Report (wrap)" converts the numeric data to a String Array using the format string %.3f.  This is, in fact, a Control input for the function, but its caller does not wire the input, forcing the numeric data to be truncated to three significant digits.

 

I suggest that the default either be changed to %.15f (or something similar) to preserve the precision of the input data, or the Format String be "brought out" to the User (but there are no free Connector slots) to allow the User to control the precision.

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Sounds like a bug to me.

Darren
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Status changed to: Declined

Moved to CAR database: CAR 598515