On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Andreas Noack Jensen wrote:
>>
>>> I am checking some gretl code against CATS in RATS and using the
>>> australian
>>> dataset. When exporting to csv, the variable iau2 only has three digits
>>> after the dot, but the variable has up to four non zero digits after the
>>> dot in gretl and hence I get different results from the exported data than
>>> I do in gretl. Is it a bug?
>>
>> Looks like it. I'll take a look at the relevant code shortly.
>
> In the meantime, you can use
>
> set csv_digits 18
>
> and force the number of digits in the csv file.

Hmm, yes, we need to document that.

Anyway, I found the bug. We were trying to be a bit too clever in
saving bytes in CSV output, and failed (occasionally) in quite a
subtle way. Fixed in CVS; snapshots will follow tomorrow.

Allin

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