On Mar 23, 12:23 pm, Ian Osgood <i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> From REPRESENT it is relatively straightforward to get an exponential
> form (-0.DDDeNNN) suitable for re-parsing. Much of the complexity of
> the implementation of F. is dealing with pretty-printing issues like
> non-exponential forms, leading and trailing zeros, and limiting
> precision.
Yes, Excel, and therefore Linux spreadsheets that chase it, is happy
with a CSV file with
"table","col001","col002",...
"row001",+0.35240000E+001,-0.26467800E+000, ...
Excel puts out scientific notation normalized, except for all zeros,
between 1.00... and 9.99... but that is straightforward too.


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