[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47815] io package, OCT interface: xls2oct fails reading formula results

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #47815 (project octave):

Please try attached  __OCT_xlsx2oct__.m (put in share/..../<io-2.4.1>/private/
 and report back.

On my boxes this fixes your problem. The whole thing however hints to
potential similar issues elsewhere, so before finalizing I'd like to
investigate further.

The underlying issue is that regular expressions may appear fast (and they
are) but real XML parsers are much more reliable. 
This bug here means just another addition to already fairly complicated
regular expressions. I sometimes fear that in the end, after a chain of more
bugs like this (heaven forbid), the regular expressions may become so
complicated that the speed advantage over XML parsers gets moot.


(file #37038)
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File name: __OCT_xlsx2oct__.m             Size:11 KB


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