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  3. August 2008

Re: GAH!!!!!! Excel is so STUPID!

David Gibbs wrote:
Bill wrote:
But isn't that the purpose of documentation, to tell us of things like that? The help text for Excel 2003 is pretty straightforward:

True ... of course I didn't construct the spreadsheet ... however (at least IMO) it's unreasonable and unnatural for a function to return different output values for the same input based on somewhat arbitrary environmental conditions.

But isn't that exactly what iSeries programmers run into when developing international versions of their software?


A double byte character is a double byte character, regardless of the default language.

With this point, I do agree. The function should always return 2 bytes.

Bill

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