Hi, I used the mergJSON in version 8 DP1 today for the first time. I loaded my CSV file into the program and build my arrays then exported the array as JSON.
what do I find? prices that were 1.40 showing up as 1.3999999999999999, 2.30 showing as 2.2999999999999998 etc Now I know this is documented as anything that looks like a real number is stored as an IEEE 754 double. Can someone please explain the logic that says that a textual representation of information (CSV, XML a text file even) is translated to a IEEE number for us to round as we see fit? Please explain any cases where this makes any sense at all. if I wanted the number to be 1.399999 thats what I would put in there. Now the documentation says round it to the precision you want - it already is otherwise it wouldn't be in the CSV/JSON file if it was wrong in the first place. Anyone got any thoughts on this? Monte as much as I respect your programming prowess I respectfully think you are wrong on this one - it has to be more coding to do it this way than to leave it as text - or am I missing something. Shouldn't there be a parameter that asks if we want this (with false as the default?) as per the pretty print which works brilliantly by the way - perfect in fact. I wrote a JSON library for Visual foxpro a couple of years ago and the only change it made was if there was an integer of say 1 or 2 it would change it to 1.0 or 2.0 because Foxpro itself reads any numbers from a file as Real rather than integer but the actual value is still the same 1.0 is 1. I could have coded against that but it would have been a bit convoluted and would have slowed the system down so I left it as is. KIndest Regards Lagi _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
