Alan,

This issue has been fixed in git-next. We'll have it merged into
master soon. The user is shown options to change the precision and
using scientific notation when saving data as CSV.

http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12705

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's just as trivial to provide an option to the user :).
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Scott, W Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there any downside to hard coding it to some bigger number, such as 12
>> digits?  That should be safe and trivial, shouldn’t it?
>>
>>
>>
>> Let me know, and I will write up bug reports.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Robert Maynard [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:03 PM
>> To: Scott, W Alan
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] CSV file significant digits
>>
>>
>>
>> The precision is currently hard coded I would recommend submitting a bug
>> that the precision become a user controlled variable.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Scott, W Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have a user that is trying to write a spreadsheet to a .csv file.
>> Although the spreadsheet displays (and can display) a large number of
>> significant digits, when this is written to a .CSV file the precision is
>> pretty poor.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to increase the precision of the data in a .CSV file?
>>
>>
>>
>> To replicate, just open wavelet, display in a spreadsheet file, change the
>> spreadsheet file to have more precision than 6 characters, and File/Export
>> this to a .csv file.  The .csv file holds only 6 characters of precision for
>> each variable.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
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