error in str.elements(s, ";") ???

Thomas Heusser

Hallo,

is there a known issue for the missbehaviour of that:

String s = 'dsfäö$üç;asdfasdäö$üç;asdf;'
List l = str.elements(s, ";")
echo ("s: ", s)
echo ("l: ", l)
Error.abort()

As you see attached, the Elements of the list are wrong ... ????

Any infos on that?

Thomas

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Thomas Heusser

Hallo,

i did a workaround for that, but ...

- is this the way to do it ...
- str.A2UTF8 and str.UTF82A is not in the documentation, can i use it nevertheless???

yellow: input
the red one is not correct...
the green one works fine

Thomas

Jim_Brezina

In the 9.7.1 builder, I run the following script:

string s ='this;is;my;string'

list ls

echo(s)

ls = str.elements(s,';')

echo(ls[1])

The output in the debug window is as follows:

this;is;my;string

this

The only difference I see between what you listed and thisexample is the quotes you used… This seems to be the issue as Ihave similar problems to what you describe if I try to use double quoutes (“)to denote the character for str.elements() to split on.

I hope this is helpful…

Regards,

Jim

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error in str.elements(s, ";") ???

Posted by theusser (Heusser, Thomas) On 2010/10/02 06:23

Hallo,

i did a workaround for that, but ...

- is this the way to do it ...
- str.A2UTF8 and str.UTF82A is not in the documentation, can i use it nevertheless???

yellow: input
the red one is not correct...
the green one works fine

(image)

Thomas

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Kyle_Swidrovich

I am running a Latin-1 9.7.1 with the 09-2010 cumulative patch applied.
I am not seeing the behaviour you are describing:

Output
s: dsfäö$üç;asdfasdäö$üç;asdf;
l: {'dsfäö$üç','asdfasdäö$üç','asdf',''}

However, in a UTF-8 10.0.0 system with the 09-2010 cumulative patch applied, I do see the behaviour:

Output
s: dsfäö$üç;asdfasdäö$üç;asdf;
l: {'dsfäö$ü','ç;asdfasdäö$','ç;as',''}

Since Builder is not a UTF-8-capable dev environment, I attempted the same through web lingo and ran the test through the llserver service.

This test showed the same:
Output
s: dsfäö$üç;asdfasdäö$üç;asdf;
l: {'dsfäö$ü','ç;asdfasdäö$','ç;as',''}

This indicates there is an issue with the Str.Elements built-in.

Thank you for reporting this.
I have entered it into our issue tracking system as LPAD-23602.

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Thomas Heusser

that's correct, but not the issue, the issue rises with the mentioned input-String (and normal "Umaute" as "öäüéè" works fine, the problem seams to be the "ç" (or a combination of it ....)

Thomas

Thomas Heusser

thank you (fyi: my test System and VM has 9.7.1 with 06-2010.pat)
Thomas

Robert_Haskett

Hi all,

In the UTF8 versions of 971 and 10, all of the string functions are expecting properly encoded UTF8 strings. The strings as copy/pasted/entered directly in Builder are only encoded as high-byte ANSI. If you open your script file in an editor like Notepad++ and save it back with UTF8 encoding, and then run it through builder/server it will behave as expected. Alternately, if you use the ( undocumented, but safe ) Str.A2UTF8() function on any string constant in builder, it will also produce the correct results. The same goes for WebLingo files. Builder can open these files, but the UTF8 characters do not display correctly in the UI and Builder only saves them with ANSI encoding.

.r.