Re: [Gretl-users] Input of csv data - does the German version work as intended?
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Allin Cottrell wrote:
<csv>
date;Erster;Hoch;Tief;Schlusskurs;Stuecke;Volumen
23.02.2015;71,16;71,24;70,6;70,91;172.975;12.251.361
20.02.2015;70,55;70,92;70,22;70,62;752.159;53.136.228
19.02.2015;70,74;71,06;69,93;70,73;576.821;40.735.744
...
</csv>
Gretl running in English gets everything right automatically, but
the importation fails when running in German -- in fact, in any
locale that uses ',' as decimal character and with "Use locale
setting for decimal point" selected in gretl's Preferences.
This is now fixed in git and snapshots.
When gretl realized that '.' must be a thousands marker, she revised
her opinion about ',', now taking it to be the decimal separator. The
consequences of this switch were correctly handled for the case where
the local decimal separator is dot, but not otherwise. Now they're
handled in both cases.
Allin