I'm in the process of installing 5.2.16, on the client system and I'll try the same test on the upgraded version when its up and running. I've also read the release notes for this new version, but I dont see any patch documented for this particular issue. Do you know if this was a reported bug that has been accidentally corrected, or was this a known bug that has now been addressed, but not included in the release notes for the newer version ? I'm just wondering that if it was a targeted fix, then other possible mv manipulation issues may have been considered and looked into at the time, else I guess I should look into these myself just in case they exist and haven't been accidentally fixed as well... Russell.
On Saturday, 14 July 2012 00:40:23 UTC+10, Russell Bowes wrote: > One of our clients has pointed out some inconsistent behaviour when > dealing with multivalues in dicts in their 5.2 site. > > They have a record with two attributes. > > Attr# 1 = "2" @VM "1" @VM "1" > Attr# 2 = "1" @VM "1" > > In their old 3.4.10 site, if they had a dict item which looked this... > > 001 A > 002 0 > 003 1-2 > 004 > 005 > 006 > 007 > 008 A;1-2 > 009 R > 010 10 > > When they listed their record with this dict item, it returned... > > "1" @VM "0" @VM "1" > > which is what they expected. > > When they did the same subtraction in a basic program, it again gave the > same result, which was great, AND consistent... > > They tried the same test on their new 5.2.15 site, but the results were > not as expected. > > When they listed their record with their dict item, it returned.... > > "1" @VM "0" (h'mm, only two values returned ?) > > However, when performing the same test in a basic program, it worked as > expected. > > At first glance, it looks like a bug to me, but I'll dig further and look > at some other string manipulations to see how they fare. > > > -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
