Read CSV Truncates My Leading Zeroes

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2024-07-02 at 8:26 pm #75699

takeoutprism
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I am trying to increment and load a 6 digit reference number saved in a google sheet by incrementing with a webhook through Zapier and reading the sheet via csv. This all works great except the Read CSV puzzle is removing leading 0’s from my reference number, turning “000001” into “1” when reading csv data.

How can I keep it from removing the leading zeroes?

2024-07-02 at 11:25 pm #75700

xeon
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sounds like its saving the value as a number rather than a text string.
number: 0001, 0000001 all equals 1
text: 0001, 00000001 and 1 are all different values.
May want to check your variable types.

Just a guess.

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2024-07-03 at 3:06 pm #75708

takeoutprism
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The value is text calculated from an integer value in cell A2 with the formula below. When the csv is viewed directly, the value displays properly with the leading zeros. The Read CSV puzzle seems to be converting the value.

=TEXT(A2, "000000")

2024-07-03 at 9:45 pm #75710

xeon
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Ok…well.. good news and bad news.

The “read CSV from” puzzle does truncate leading zeros. Thats a bug or should be a bug.

BUT

You can get around this by using a list puzzle and “load data” directly into the list. This will keep the leading zeros.

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2024-07-04 at 4:53 am #75712

kdv
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xeon wrote:

Thats a bug or should be a bug.

It’s not a bug. Numeric values with leading zeros don’t exist. In MS Excel try to type in 0001 and see the result ))) If you want those leading zeros you should read them as text values…

takeoutprism wrote:

=TEXT(A2, “000000”)

change your formula to =TEXT(A2;"a000000") and after reading values from .csv just remove “a” from all values.

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2024-07-04 at 5:15 am #75713

xeon
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Which goes back to the original statement….convert the numeric values to strings but its not necessary if you load the data into a list directly.

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2024-07-04 at 5:26 am #75715
kdv
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xeon wrote:

but its not necessary if you load the data into a list directly.

.csv files usually contain at least 2 columns (parameter;value;description;more). converting such files directly into a list has no sense.
```
33_truss_4LRB;a00001
counter;a00002
Cube;a00001
monkey.2d4f2c15;a00001
oct_counter_1m;a00002
set_25;a00001
```
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2024-07-04 at 10:01 am #75722

kdv
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kdv wrote:

converting such files directly into a list has no sense.

but if needed, here’s a replacement for the “read CSV” puzzle: no numbers, string values only.

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