I felt a bit inspired, so I added that feature. it will be in the next
PSPP release.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 6:36 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
