Hi Eike, The -now reverted- patch for tdf#88547 made it possible to convert an array of date strings to an array of numeric date values. From tdf#88547 I learned that Excel accepts these arguments in functions like WORKDAY.INTL(), NETWORKDAYS.INTL(), MODE.MULT() and others. In https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89872#c3 you say "The way how GetNumberSequenceArray() is used (and was implemented) it should ignore all string and empty values like all spreadsheet functions do that expect a number sequence as parameter.".
Now MODE.MULT() and the like do expect a number sequence as parameter _and_ are expected to accept arrays of date strings. I want to fix 88547 in a way that doesn't break the use of GetNumberSequenceArray() as it did with my original patch, but I'm not sure which way to go. Currently I think a proper solution would be to check whether we have a real non-empty string before we convert it to numeric and push an error when conversion to numeric fails; i.e. expand on my original patch of GetNumberSequenceArray(). Given that you know much more of this function and its purpose and history that I do (or can find out from git), I would like to hear your opinion/suggestion before I start coding. Winfried _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
