Possible OI bug (OpenInsight Specific) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

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At 30 MAY 2001 12:13:02PM Colin Rule wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

There is a bug, which you can work around, in OI 3.7.2, and possibly later releases.

We have a database whose IDs are free form, and a client entered a code, 61.4E308.

This causes severe crash when used with a LOCATE…. BY "AR".

It tries to resolve the ID as an exponential number and aborts ungracefully.

Please resolve if possible for future releases.

For now we are using "AL" sortation, but this is short term.

We could convert the DOT to UNDERSCORE for the purposes of the locate, and then revert, but this may not necessarily work in all cases.

Anyway, for now we can workaround it as we know why it happens, but a fix in the future would be a wonderful thing.

Thanks in anticipation.

Colin Rule

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