To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115447 Issue #|115447 Summary|Importing CSV file with double-quoted numbers treats n |umbers as text Component|Spreadsheet Version|OOo 3.2.1 Platform|Unknown URL| OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P2 Subcomponent|open-import Assigned to|spreadsheet Reported by|brundegj
------- Additional comments from brund...@openoffice.org Sat Nov 6 18:47:11 +0000 2010 ------- I download CSV files from my bank, where each field is surrounded by double quotes and separated by commas. I open the file in Calc, copy the numeric columns, and paste into another calc spreadsheet with formulas. This worked perfectly in version 3.1.1 After upgrading to v. 3.2.1 this no longer works, with confusing results that look like data corruption. Calc is now importing the numbers as text. In fact, when pasting the cells it seems to force the destination cells to be fixed as "text" cells, so deleting the number and manually entering a new number still produces text. This is very confusing, as the values still look like numbers and give no hint as to why numeric calculations don't work properly. IF() functions evaluate all values as positive, sum() functions don't work, etc. To reproduce: Create a CSV file with numeric fields surrounded by double quotes such as: "10/25/2010","-36.00","*","","DESCRIPTION" "10/22/2010","-269.15","*","","DESCRIPTION" Import the file into calc. Try to sum the numeric field column with the =SUM() function. Result: the sum reads 0, since the fields are not numbers even though they look like numbers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
