Table Import Extra Digits

  • Resolved Laverneus Dinglefoot

    (@laverneus-dinglefoot)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Tobias,

    After updating to 4.0, I have had issues importing Excel tables. When I have a number like 1.12, it comes into the table as 1.1199999999999, even though it is just a simple 1.12 in the Excel file. This did not happen with any earlier version of Tablepress.

    I will give you any additional info you need to look into it. Thanks for the help, as always.

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Can you try this again with a .csv file instead of an .xlsx? What does the number look like when opening the .csv file with a text editor?

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Laverneus Dinglefoot

    (@laverneus-dinglefoot)

    With the .csv file, the numbers look great. The only issue is Greek symbols in the table headers, but that takes about 20 seconds to fix.

    As always, you have provided amazing customer service. Thank you much.

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    good to hear that this helped!
    The Greek symbols issue might be related to the character encoding. If you plan to import such files more often, you could try opening them in a text editor and saving them again with UTF-8 as the character encoding. That should fix this. But quickly fixing them manually might be faster, indeed.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    ok, but this by itself does not answer the problem with numbers. I have the same issue with TablePress 1.5.1

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    the Excel import is only experimental and not yet stable, so that things like this are not guaranteed to work. Sorry.
    Switching to stable import formats like CSV is therefore the best way to go here.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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