[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143183] Format Basic function needs better description of its 'format' argument

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143183

Olivier Hallot <olivier.hallot at libreoffice.org> changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
             Blocks|                            |80430
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #3 from Olivier Hallot <olivier.hallot at libreoffice.org> ---
The printfmtstr extra codes for strings may return unexpected values if not
carefully coded in Basic

msgbox Format("FooBar", "!!abc") '=> "F" (everything after initial "1" is
discarded)
msgbox Format("123.456", "!") '=> return !
msgbox Format("123.456", "!!abc") '=> return !!abc 
msgbox Format("123.abc456", "!!abc") '=> return 1

So, if the string contents is a valid number, the '!' format string return the
format string itself.
otherwise, return the first character of the input string.


Also the "&" format code seems to return the format string itself.
msgbox Format("ADCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890", "&abc")
msgbox Format(123.456, "&abc")
msgbox Format("123.456", "&abc")

all return &abc.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80430
[Bug 80430] [META] Documentation gap for new features
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