Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-03 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Luuk, > > I decided not to report this as a bug. > > Then only 'bug' i could find is that CONCAT is missing from the help, > > where CONCATENATE leads to: > https://help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060110.html?System=WIN=CALC=SC_HID_FUNC_VERKETTEN#bm_id3153084 > > > > I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-03 Thread Luuk
On 2-4-2019 19:33, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Luuk, In 6.2.0.3 on Windows, the function CONCATENATE(a1:a3) returns the value of a1 This should be reported a a bug... So please report this, if you could see the buggy behaviour in LO 6.2.2.2 also. I can't report it, because I couldn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-03 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Jonathon, > > It doesn't matter if concat or concatentate is the correct command to > use. Neither concat(a20:a200) nor concatentate(a20:a200) return the > expected the result. Both return the value in a20. I couldn't confirm this with Version: 6.2.2.2 Build ID:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-03 Thread Dave Howorth
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 23:27:16 +0200 Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael H schrieb am 02-Apr-19 um 13:03: > > CONCATENATE must either fail to accept ranges (with an error), or > > accept them and provide the combination that acceptance suggests. > > It is a bug that it accepts ranges,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread jonathon
On 4/2/19 9:27 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Because CONCATENATE expects a list of simple references, it performs an > "implicit intersection", if instead of a simple reference a range is given. > http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part2.html#ImpliedIntersection That

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Michael, Michael H schrieb am 02-Apr-19 um 13:03: CONCATENATE must either fail to accept ranges (with an error), or accept them and provide the combination that acceptance suggests. It is a bug that it accepts ranges, but returns something else. Because CONCATENATE expects a list of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread jonathon
On 4/2/19 2:54 PM, Robert Großkopf wrote: >> This thread is about CONCATENATE being dysfunctional in that it accepts >> ranges, but does not act on them correctly. Please stop referring to CONCAT >> as the reason that CONCATENATE is broken. > > Please read the first mail of jonathon. > "With

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Luuk, > In 6.2.0.3 on Windows, the function CONCATENATE(a1:a3) returns the value > of a1 > > This should be reported a a bug... So please report this, if you could see the buggy behaviour in LO 6.2.2.2 also. I can't report it, because I couldn't reproduce it with LO 6.2.2.2. Regards Robert

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Luuk
On 2-4-2019 16:54, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Michael, This thread is about CONCATENATE being disfunctional in that it accepts ranges, but does not act on them correctly. Please stop referring to CONCAT as the reason that CONCATENATE is broken. Please red the first mail of jonathon. "With

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Michael, > > This thread is about CONCATENATE being disfunctional in that it accepts > ranges, but does not act on them correctly. Please stop referring to CONCAT > as the reason that CONCATENATE is broken. Please red the first mail of jonathon. "With previous versions of LibO,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, I believe that the difference is in where the function hails from: CONCATENATE is defined in the ODF standard. CONCAT comes by way of Excel support. I think you have a point about how the system should respond when erroneously using ranges for the ODF function (not supported) and could be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Michael H
Why are we defending invalid output of a function? When I send invalid data like range to a function, say ABS(c1:c4), I expect it to return an error (#VALUE! comes up in linux). In linux on LO 6.0.7, I'm getting the 2nd value in the range as a valid output of the function CONCATENATE(C1:C4).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Michael, > CONCATENATE must either fail to accept ranges (with an error), or accept > them and provide the combination that acceptance suggests. It is a bug that > it accepts ranges, but returns something else. Have opened Calc and looking for fuction CONCATENATE. Help in the dialog says:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-02 Thread Michael H
CONCATENATE must either fail to accept ranges (with an error), or accept them and provide the combination that acceptance suggests. It is a bug that it accepts ranges, but returns something else. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-01 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi *, use CONCAT instead of CONCATENATE. CONCAT will accept cell-ranges. Regards Robert -- Homepage: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de LibreOffice Community: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/map_3 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-01 Thread Steve Edmonds
I am running 6.07 and =CONCATENATE(A2:A4) gives #VALUE =CONCATENATE(A2,A3,A4) concatenates A2, A3 and A4 correctly. Steve On 02/04/2019 14:43, Michael Manning wrote: > I am running an older version of LibreOffice > Version: 5.1.6.2 > Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6 > CPU Threads: 2; OS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-01 Thread Michael Manning
I am running an older version of LibreOffice Version: 5.1.6.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6 CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group running on Linux Mint 18.3 the function concatenate(text1:text4) gives the result text1 the

[libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

2019-04-01 Thread jonathon
All: LibreOffice 6.2.2.2 CPU: 8 Threads OS: Linux 4.2 Locale en_ZA With previous versions of LibO, concatenate(b1:b200) would concatenate all cells between b1 and b200. With LibO 6.2.2.2, concatenate(b1:b200) returns the data in b1. a) When was this functionality changed? I didn't come across