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Re: error message!
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Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:22:30 GMT
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Hi Todd,
again you impressed me with a way more detailed answer than I expected and
again I'm not entirely sure that I understood everything. As long as I could
help supporting it's fine though :) .
> resulted in a 0 because "1\0001" isn't an integer. I see some 11's • (eleven)
> in your data and I wonder if those are supposed to be 11 or if they are • the
> result of some other bug related to this. I just tested with two sets and
> put 1 and 1 in and I got empty (zero) rather than 11.
Oh, yes! There are many 11, 22 and 77 etc. in my collection. Please don't
delete these numbers as they are very important for me. They only appear in
the 'Private Own' Section and I thought nobody else would be able to see
them. Don't worry about these confusing numbers, they make sence to me.
Don't misinterprete them as quantities, as I use the 'Private Own' Section
to mark specific sets for various reasons. The 'Private Notes' section is
working nice, but you can't view all your 'Private Notes' in one list (yet),
so I had to find a way for quickly viewing all sets that belong to a certain
group marked with certain private notes. Only the few persons who can acces
my private section will see these strange numbers, so I don't think they
should be any problem. But as this is a very unique system it might be
causing trouble in a way that I am not aware of. So please e-mail me if you
have any further questions or concerns. I will not explain my entire system
here, I'm happy that it works fine for me and so I will keep it that way.
> It can't assume that you meant to add the numeric quantities together
> (i.e., 1 + 1 = 2) because if you already have 2 and you view it again, • you'd
> get 2 + 2 = 4 if it appeared twice, or 2 + 2 + 2 = 6 if it appeared • thrice.
> If it gets conflicting data for a form field, it might as well handle the
> subforms sequentially, which would mean honoring the first one or the last
> one and ignoring the others. Then, in the part that receives the list of
> objects to display, it might as well remove any duplicates to prevent • possible
> confusion in the first place, making the duplicates a moot issue.
No, what I am used to do is. Entering all set numbers that I recieved into
the search box and then simply raise the excisting quantity os sets I own by
1. Usually, I have 0 copies of a set so I put 1 in and push submit. I never
picked up two copies of the same set at once, so I never opened a page that
listed the same set twice. But now I did and I entered '1' into each of the
two boxes not having in mind that it's actually the same set twice. I didn't
expect the Set Guide to do the maths for me, I simply mixed up that two of
the set numbers I recieved were excactly the same. As I said, it won't
happen again, I'm sure :) .
> OK, just made that change. So, for example, if you do...
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> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=711x,7110,7111&v=a
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> ...then you see three matches (7110, 7111, 7115) instead of five (7110, • 7111,
> 7115, 7110, 7111).
Yes, now it CAN'T happen again. Thanks!
> Thank you VERY much for discovering and reporting this.
So, was this a bug or bad feature? Hopefully no DoS attack :) ! Lugnet seems
to have various technical problems lately, it's good to see you're able to
'repair' everything. Keep it that way, please!
Bye, Christian --- xTI@N.
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| (...) Yup -- that's correct -- you're the only one who ever normally sees them. I happened to see it when I looked into some of the raw DB data to track down the bug. (...) It was a bug. So was the technical problem last week. --Todd (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Aha! OK, then I see now how the ASCII 0 got there! :-) :-) When the low- level CGI stuff on the server receives two copies of the same field, it pastes them together with and ASCII 0 separator into a single string. In an HTML, the only time (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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