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

hi, Rafal
I recently read part of code about "Table"
we can have some discussion

Thanks
Chen Xiajian




发件人： Rafał Kułaga
发送时间： 2011-04-20 16:51:56
收件人： abiword-dev
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主题： Summing a row/column with strings containing numbers - feature or a bug?
 
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 17:29:42 2011