Re: 1.99.16 - strftime - expansion of the % character

[Danny Backx]

It appears to be at line 495 in oleofile.c, but I haven't got a fix yet.
Please feel free to provide one if you can, I'm tied up right now.

        Danny

Kev Buckley wrote:
> 
> Apologies for not having trawled through the oleo code yet but I
> wanted to flag thsi up and see if you alreayd have a fix as I cant
> believe you wont have had this one already posted.
> 
> I Enter the following into a cell
> 
>   @strftime("%d-%b-%Y", @ymd(2002, 1, 14))
> 
> so that it displays
> 
>   14-Feb-2002
> 
> Oleo automatically displays teh contents of that cell in the staus line as
> 
>     A1 "14-Feb-2002"address@hidden("%%d-%%b-%%Y", @ymd(2002, 1, 14))]
> 
> When I save the spreadshet, the top of oleo file shows:
> 
> # format 2.1 (requires Oleo 1.99.9 or higher)
> F;DGFL8
> O;auto;background;a0;ticks 1
> C;c1;r1;Estrftime("%%d-%%b-%%Y", ymd(2002, 1, 14));K"14-Feb-2002"
> O;status 2
> W;N1;A1 1;C7 0 7;Ostandout
> GDx""
> GDy""
> Gt0
>  and so on
> 
> when I read it back in the status line now shows
> 
>   A1 "14-Feb-2002"address@hidden("%%%%d-%%%%b-%%%%Y", @ymd(2002, 1, 14))]
> 
> This is OK initially, as the constant value from the K"14-Feb-2002"
> field in the external file gets shown in the spreadsheet - but
> problems arise if you edit the args to the ymd function, because the
> strftime fails (with good reason I reckon) to interpret the multiple
> %s in its format argument on recalculation and shows:
> 
>   %%d-%%b-%%Y
> 
> OK, my guess is that whatever code parses the cell entries is missing
> the fact that the % characters are inside a "" pair and is expanding
> them.
> 
> So, is this a "known" bug ?
> 
> Once I realised what was happening, it has become faily easy to alter
> the external file to remove the spurious %s and, as the args to the
> ymd function are still preserved, it loads OK again next time around.
> 
> For info I'm running
> 
> oleo-1.99.16 (in a terminal window)
> 
> on a LinuxFromScratch-type installation that currently has a 2.4.16
> kernel with glibc-2.1.3
> 
> As I say, I will try and take a look at the oleo code at some point,
> assuming this hasn't already been fixed.
> 
> All the best for now,
> Kevin
> 
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> 
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