Hi John,

Missing values are the source of many problems. Testing them early and often 
makes lots of sense.

Thanks for the quick response. I'll be sure to let you know if I notice 
anything else.

Niels

On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:38 AM, "K. John Wu" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Niels,
> 
> Thanks for noticing this problem.  We have removed the value 99 from
> the second column to exercise the handling of missing values.  The two
> query example should return 9 hits not 10.  We have update
> quickstart.html to reflect this change.
> 
> Thanks again.  Let us know if you spot anything that needs attention.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On 11/18/13, 6:42 PM, Niels Johnson wrote:
>> At some point between fastbit-ibis1.3.0 and fastbit-ibis1.3.5 the
>> file tests/test0.csv was corrupted. The 2nd value of the last line of
>> the file was replaced with two spaces.
>> 
>> $ tail -n3 fastbit-ibis1.3.0/tests/test0.csv 
>> 97, 97, 2
>> 98, 98, 1
>> 99, 99, 0
>> 
>> tail -n3 fastbit-ibis1.3.5/tests/test0.csv 
>> 97, 97, 2
>> 98, 98, 1
>> 99,   , 0
>> 
>> This may confuse new users because when we run the second set of
>> queries on quickstart.html we get on 9 results instead of the expected
>> 10 since a no longer equals b for the final row.
>> 
>>   The following two commands both produce 10 hits.
>>   examples/ibis -d tmp -q "where a = b and c < 10"
>>   examples/thula -d tmp -w "a = b and c < 10"
>> 
>> Not a big deal but I though you would want to know. Thanks again for
>> the cool software.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> 
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