Small float format problem on unload
Received: from gollum.twg.com by Mercury.TWG.COM id aa25728; 12 Dec 91 14:39 PST From: "Jeff P. Cauhape" <cauhape@TWG.COM> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 14:39:07 -0800 Message-Id: <5838.9112122239@gollum.twg.com.twg.com> To: becker@ukh840.med-in.uni-sb.de Subject: Re: unloading smallfloat-data Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix In-Reply-To: <14911@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Cc: In article <14911@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> you write: >Problems unloading smallfloat - numbers > >I am storing some laboratory-results as smallfloat-numbers. Now it is >necessary to unload data for statistical analyses with SPSS. >Data which have been entered into INFORMIX as round numbers >lead to unloaded data with many positions after the decimal point. > 1.31 ---> 1.3099999 ... >Dieter >-- Dieter, I don't know if there is an elegant way to do it, but it occurs to me that you could write a simple ace report to print the data in download format. If you use an ace report, you have more control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Cauhape cauhape@TWG.COM 415/962-7147 Room 224 (SneakerNet) "I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------