I just remembered that there's a setting for whether to display
leading zeros ("SET LEADZERO" in syntax), that PSPP does not yet
implement. Maybe I should implement it. The default is still to leave
them out, though.On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 4:12 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > > Thanks for the comment. > > The ".086" style without a leading zero is an SPSS peculiarity that > PSPP reproduces. When PSPP writes output in any of its own formats, it > uses this style for compatibility. But when PSPP writes output to a > spreadsheet format, it's writing the numerical value of the numbers, > which the spreadsheet program itself then displays, and it's normal > for spreadsheet programs (and most programs) to include a leading > zero. > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 3:38 PM someone <maffyd...@aol.com> wrote: > > > I got a chance to finish reviewing the windows version of 1.6. I looked at > > frequencies, means, correlation, scatterplot, regression. They all work, > > and they all give the same results they did in the previous version. Very > > good. > > > > One comment. I didn't notice before, but for correlation and regression, > > when the results are displayed in the results window, the numbers are like > > this: .086 that is, no zero in front of the decimal place. I then > > exported the result. When I open the file with a text editor, again, no > > zero in front of the decimal place. When I opened the file with my > > spreadsheet program, libre office, there is a zero there, which I assume > > libre office put there. > > > > Not a big deal, since libre office reads it okay. I don't know whether it's > > something to fix.
