Hi list, I can't believe I have not bumped into this in nearly 10 years of using MapInfo Pro, but I still find things out, sometimes basic things, and I wanted to throw this one out for response...
It appears to me that when I export a table as a delimited Text file, numeric data values are truncated to the values visible in the browser view. What I have is Decimal degree coordinate fields in a MapInfo TAB file structure using DBF for the data table. They have 6 digits after the decimal point, but only 3 show up in the browser view. When I click inside one of the cells in the browser the full value with all 6 decimal places shows up. If I export this table to a Text file only the 3 visible digits come out. So the recipient of my exported file found a rather 'regular' patter when he re-plotted points. My guess is this is DBF-related, maybe even 8 places showing including a minus sign and the decimal point (-150.321 for example), and maybe a controllable setting in either the browser view or the ASCII export process. Before I dig in to that I thought I'd take the easy route and ask the experts gathered here... Thanks. Will Mitchell Mitchell Geographics, Inc. 496 Congress Street Portland, Maine 04101 207.879.7769 www.mitchellgeo.com
