read data accuracy lost

The original data of textfile is 95000.823, use "dlmread" command to read into matlab. But, the data change to "95001". Double click it on the variable matrix window, the data is still "95001", and copy it out and paste to the notepad, "95001" still.

how remain the original data accuracy?

thank u very much!!

Answer 1

[per isakson]

dlmread doesn't round to whole numbers.

Try this

    dlmwrite( 'myfile.txt', 95000.823, 'precision', '%12.3f' )
    format long 
    val = dlmread('myfile.txt')

Did you check the content of the text-file with an editor?