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Leonard MadaJun 7, 2007 1:35 pm 
Thomas ZanderJun 7, 2007 11:49 pm.pgp
Eike RathkeJun 8, 2007 9:33 am 
Leonard MadaJun 9, 2007 2:07 am 
Patrick DurusauJun 9, 2007 3:15 am 
David A. WheelerJun 10, 2007 3:42 pm 
Eike RathkeJun 13, 2007 10:51 am 
Subject:Re: [office-comment] Very Weak String Support in ODF
From:Thomas Zander (zan@kde.org)
Date:Jun 7, 2007 11:49:10 pm
List:org.oasis-open.lists.office-comment
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On Thursday 07 June 2007 22:40:30 Leonard Mada wrote:

The current Formula Specification and OOo implementation thereof have a very weak support for strings. Even fundamental string functions are lacking This makes the use of ODF a poor choice for many research fields, where a lot of the data is in text format.

This is not really an ODF fileformat problem, this is more a problem that the implementations of the format should address. In particular, I know that KSpread is implementing the full spec and is also combining it with a scripting language to access the cells from a set of different languages. Python, Ruby and Javascript are already available in the development version.

This and your post about distinct values seem to be much easier implemented using such a script.

-- Thomas Zander