Special character getting appended to a negative decimal value.

RE: Special character getting appended to a negative decimal value.

sanchitg0002 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:55:12 GMT

you can convert a number with scientific notation to normal text string using fixed() function.

RE: Special character getting appended to a negative decimal value.

EMueller — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:31:43 GMT

Hi Abhay,

I tried opening it with my text editor, but for my case the special character is actually part of the value. The number is of type string in the database. Otherwise large numbers would be converted to scientific notation, so something like 7+e, when converting to CSV.

Do you know a way to either

- remove/prevent the special character

- convert numbers to CSV without scientific notation?

Thanks!

RE: Special character getting appended to a negative decimal value.

Abhay Dalsaniya — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:54:53 GMT

It is excel's way of displaying the numeric value in text. " ' " is not part of actual value. Try to view .csv in text editor and you won't see " ' ".

RE: Special character getting appended to a negative decimal value.

Chris — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:21:00 GMT

Other than the suggestion above, I might try casting the value to varchar() in the view and updating the CDT to string, to see if that resolves.

RE: Special character getting appended to a negative decimal value.

shuaibs6722 — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:26:23 GMT

I suggest to validate the Table structure that the data type in table is Decimal only, I tried to use the DSE to CSV smart service with negative decimal values in the DB and it is exporting as expected. Also check if the CDT and the Table have the same data type.