Re: Summing a row/column with strings containing numbers - feature or a bug?

Hi Rafal,

That strange outcome was not the intention of the feature. Feel free
to fix it :-)

Cheers

Martin

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Rafał Kułaga <rl.kulaga@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am 22 year-old student of Automatics and Robotics at AGH University
> of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland. I have applied to this
> year's edition of GSoC with project aiming at improving AbiWord's
> table support.
>
> When doing some research of how tables are implemented in AbiWord I
> have found quite unexpected behavior when user tries to sum a row or
> column in which cells contain values in form: CNCCC(...), where C
> stands for character, N for number. In such cases, the result is
> rather strange, as presented on this picture -
> http://student.agh.edu.pl/~rkulaga/sum.png
>
> The question is quite obvious - is it feature, or is it a bug? Surely
> it's unexpected behavior that could be irritating for the user.
>
> If you consider it a bug, I will try to fix it - probably the best way
> to this would be to skip every cell which does not contain valid
> integer or real value. The other possible solution is to treat
> characters as units, for example meters or currency.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Rafal Kulaga
>
Received on Wed Apr 20 11:54:20 2011