COMPUTE / TOTAL Statements

Overview

The COMPUTE statement can work with Alpha fields when used with the P and M operators. It should continue to replace the non numeric characters with zeros and perform the computation on the result.

Test Plan

1. Test P operators with raw alpha fields.
2. Test P operators with National fields.
3. Test P operators with Unicode fields.
4. Test M operators with raw alpha fields.
5. Test M operators with National fields.
6. Test M operators with Unicode fields.

Bugs

1. COMPUTE does not work with National / Unicode fields. A value of 'P100RT' added to --- X results in a total of 1 instead of 100. * FIXED* July 4 engine
2. TOTAL does not work correctly with Unicode fields, hash totals come out zero. See job TOTAL UNICODE in TST.** FIXED** July 4 engine
3. C-assert in module PMPDF.C.7115, 0LA/Output - STANDARD SUBTOTAL, [1504] PDF_stringwidth: Invalid UTF-8 string when trying to TOTAL Raw fields. Appx session then crashes. To replicate, add a record to BEGRAW file (using (ViEW) BEGRAW), then run job TOTAL RAW and choose PDF output). - NOT A PROBLEM WITH TOTAL; comment out the TOTAL statements in this output process and the problem still occurs. * FIXED * whatever the problem was, does not occur in July 11 engine.

-- PeteBrower - 2011-03-21