Your PreRead approach is an extremely hackish and fragile way of doing things! You may resort to such methods only if there is no straightforward/reliable way to achieve your goals (usually there is a way). For your particular goal you should simply use SetPrecision...
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Hi All,
I found another case in which the above code fails. When loading data files, those numbers loaded are still with MachinePrecision. I understand the above code will need modifications but how? Can anyone give us some suggestions? Thanks.
HH
