Monte Goulding's day off? ; -) mergJSON - Documented Bug or Feature?

[Mike Kerner]

and by "problem" I don't mean problem.  I mean what makes you think that
the library is doing the conversion and not LC?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> What makes you think the problem is in the library and not in LC, itself?
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Lagi Pittas <iphonelagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used the mergJSON in version 8 DP1 today for the first time.
>> I loaded my CSV file into the program and build my arrays then exported
>> the
>> array as JSON.
>>
>> what do I find?
>>
>> prices that were 1.40 showing up as 1.3999999999999999,  2.30 showing as
>> 2.2999999999999998 etc
>>
>> Now I know this is documented as anything that looks like a real number is
>> stored as an IEEE 754 double.
>>
>>
>> Can someone please explain the logic that says that a textual
>> representation of information (CSV, XML a text file even) is translated to
>> a IEEE number for us to round as we see fit?
>>
>> Please explain any cases where this makes any sense at all.
>>
>> if I wanted the number to be 1.399999 thats what I would put in there.
>>
>> Now the documentation says round it to the precision you want - it already
>> is otherwise it wouldn't be in the CSV/JSON file if it was wrong in the
>> first place.
>>
>> Anyone got any thoughts on this?
>>
>> Monte as much as I respect your programming prowess I respectfully think
>> you are wrong on this one - it has to be more coding to do it this way
>> than
>> to leave it as text - or am I missing something.
>>
>> Shouldn't there be a parameter that asks if we want this (with false as
>> the
>> default?) as per the pretty print which works brilliantly by the way -
>> perfect in fact.
>>
>> I wrote a JSON library for Visual foxpro a couple of years ago and the
>> only
>> change it made was if there was an integer of say 1 or 2 it would change
>> it
>> to 1.0 or 2.0 because Foxpro itself reads any numbers from a file as Real
>> rather than integer but the actual value is still the same 1.0 is 1. I
>> could have coded against that but it would have been a bit convoluted and
>> would have slowed the system down so I left it as is.
>>
>> KIndest Regards Lagi
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On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."