reading csv and precision

[MetLife]

Hi,

I have a .csv file and it is filled with numbers between 0 and 1. There are about 15 significant digits in the file.

The issue seems to be that when I save the file (copy the values to excel then save as .csv) the .csv is truncating the digits to 10 places.

Is there anyway to keep the total number of digits? I noticed this when I tried reading the file with vba and the results were slightly off.

Thanks

 

[Special-K99]

Change the number to text before saving maybe, ie insert a text character.
In your VBA remove the text character of course after reading each line.

Or change the format of the cell to text.

 

[oldbrewer]

why take a CSV file, copy it to Excel, and make it a CSV file ?

 

[MetLife]

OK thanks! It seems changing to text works.

I am using .csv files because these are universal files that are read by different software like C++ and not all can as easily read an excel file.

So since text files are more "universal", we try to use them for comparability.

 

[oldbrewer]

so why use excel at all ? I am clearly missing something.......

 

[MetLife]

so why use excel at all ? I am clearly missing something.......

The csv file is used by more than one program. It used by C++ as wel.