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Bug #25133 Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer cannot write formulas in lower case.
Submitted: 2003-08-18 13:49 UTC Modified: 2003-08-21 11:13 UTC
From: jkwiat03 at hotmail dot com Assigned: xnoguer (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PEAR related
PHP Version: 4.3.2 OS: Windows 2K Pro
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-08-18 13:49 UTC] jkwiat03 at hotmail dot com
Description:
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I checked the bug reports and did not see this as an issue, so hopefully no one will get too mad at me for posting this...I'm a virgin to bug reporting :).

When using the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package for PEAR, formulas must be written in capital letters.  In other words, you can not write "=SUM(a1:a10)".  It must be written as "=SUM(A1:A10)".

A simple fix for this is the following:

Edit the writeFormula() function to include

$formula = strtoupper($formula);

as the first line of the function.

I don't know if this is the best way to fix the problem, but this is my first bug report/patch, so it looks good to me :).

Reproduce code:
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<?php
require_once 'Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer.php';

// We give the path to our file here
$workbook = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer('C:\\bugs\\bug.xls');

$worksheet =& $workbook->addWorksheet('My first worksheet');

$worksheet->write(0, 0, 1);
$worksheet->write(1, 0, 2);
$worksheet->write(2, 0, 3);

// Formula must be in upper case.  This line will not work.
$worksheet->write(3, 0, "=SUM(a1:a3)");

// We still need to explicitly close the workbook
$workbook->close();
?>

Expected result:
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Apache.exe - Application Error

The exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the application at location 0x0084823d.

Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program


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 [2003-08-18 14:30 UTC] nicos@php.net
I don't think we really want to accept "formulas" in lowercase. 

But the big point of this is why is it segfaulting? We need a better handling of this m'be?
 [2003-08-18 15:02 UTC] pear dot neufeind at speedpartner dot de
Just a short note:
Maybe strtoupper is a bit "too easy" tought. Aren't there also strings allowed in Formulars? Like when you say "if >0 say 'Bigger', if <0 say 'Lower'". Fixing this with strtoupper would brake those strings.
 [2003-08-21 11:13 UTC] xnoguer@php.net
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