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After I write floating point data to a FIXED format file why does the data look wrong when inspected in the editor ?

April 26, 2017Data file fixed floating format inspected look point write wrong

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After I write floating point data to a FIXED format file why does the data look wrong when inspected in the editor ?

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Unreadable data in a FIXED file is expected. FIXED files are meant to be readable by Warehouse. The bit layouts of binary fields written to a FIXED file are not intended to be readable by humans. For human-readable output or output readable by desktop tools, consider the REPORT and CSV formats.