[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 54255] MATCH does not find empty cells

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David Lynch  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|CLOSED  |REOPENED
 Resolution|NOTABUG |---

--- Comment #17 from David Lynch  ---
I agree that the help page does not indicate that it would be possible to find
an empty cell. But, I think that the current behaviour of MATCH (etc) is
incompatible with Open Formula (version 1.2) and so should be considered a bug.
Nowhere in the specification is an exception allowed for empty cells:
"
6.14.9MATCH

Summary: Finds a Search item in a sequence, and returns its position (starting
from 1).

Syntax: MATCH( Scalar Search ; Reference|Array SearchRegion [ ; Integer
MatchType = 1 ] )

Returns: Any

Constraints: -1 <= MatchType <= 1; The searched portion of SearchRegion shall
not include Logical values. Evaluators may evaluate expressions that do not
meet the constraint that the searched portion of a SearchRegion not include
Logical values.

SearchRegion shall be a vector (a single row or column)

Semantics:

●MatchType = -1 finds the smallest value that is greater than or equal to
Search in a SearchRegion where values are sorted in descending order. From a
sequence of identical values >= Search the last value is taken. If no value >=
Search exists, the #N/A Error is returned. If Search is of type Number and the
value found is of type Text, the #N/A Error is returned. 

●MatchType = 0 finds the first value that is equal to Search. Values in
SearchRegion do not need to be sorted. If no value equal to Search exists, the
#N/A Error is returned. 

●MatchType = 1 or omitted finds the largest value that is less than or
equal to Search in a SearchRegion where values are sorted in ascending order.
>From a sequence of identical values <= Search the last value is taken. If no
value <= Search exists, the #N/A Error is returned. If Search is of type Text
and the value found is of type Number, the #N/A Error is returned. 

If a match is found, MATCH returns the relative position (starting from 1). For
Text the comparison is case-insensitive. MatchType determines the type of
search; if MatchType is 0, the SearchRegion shall be considered unsorted, and
the first match is returned. If MatchType is 1, the SearchRegion may be assumed
to be sorted in ascending order, with smaller Numbers before larger ones,
smaller Text values before larger ones (e.g., "A" before "B", and "B" before
"BA"), and False before True. If the types are mixed, Numbers are sorted before
Text, and Text before Logicals; evaluators without a separate Logical type may
include a Logical as a Number. If MatchType is -1, then SearchRegion may be
assumed to be sorted in descending order (the opposite of the above). If
MatchType is 1 or -1, evaluators may use binary search or other techniques so
that they do not need to examine every value in linear order. MatchType
defaults to 1.

The values returned may vary depending upon the HOST-USE-REGULAR-EXPRESSIONS or
HOST-USE-WILDCARDS or HOST-SEARCH-CRITERIA-MUST-APPLY-TO-WHOLE-CELL properties.
3.4
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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 54255] MATCH does not find empty cells

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Eike Rathke  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Resolution|--- |NOTABUG
 Status|NEW |RESOLVED

--- Comment #16 from Eike Rathke  ---
All three forms in comment 0 original description do *not* search for an empty
cell without content.

  =match("",A1:A2,0)[1]

searches for content of an empty string.

  =match("^$",A1:A2,0)  [2]

searches for content with an empty paragraph.

  =match(0,A1:A2,0) [3]

searches for content of numeric 0.

There is no way to find an empty cell with MATCH() or VLOOKUP() or HLOOKUP().
Also, the mentioned help page does not indicate this would be possible. It
describes the handling of empty cells *returned* by VLOOKUP() and in use with
comparison operators.
The search Criterion mentioned in comment 8 as used for the COUNTIF() family of
functions is a different syntax and completely unrelated.

The behaviour will not be changed.

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 CC||er...@redhat.com

--- Comment #15 from Oliver Brinzing  ---
@erack: you might be interested in this

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   Hardware|Other   |All
Version|3.5.5.3 release |Inherited From OOo
 OS|Windows (All)   |All

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--- Comment #14 from Oliver Brinzing  ---
Created attachment 156170
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=156170=edit
match demo

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--- Comment #13 from David Lynch  ---
Still present as originally described in
Version: 6.3.3.2 (x64)
Build ID: a64200df03143b798afd1ec74a12ab50359878ed
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI-Language: en-GB
Calc: threaded

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--- Comment #11 from himajin100...@gmail.com ---
And what I can tell from the code,

=COUNTIF(B1:B5,"^$") returns 0, when regular expression is enable in option and
all the 5 cells in B1:B5 is empty.

However,
=COUNTIF(B1:B5,"") is 5

minor note:
honestly speaking, as of 2018-07-02T08:37(UTC) ,
I don't think I can find the INDICATED description on how MATCH function should
work for the empty cells. just VLOOKUP. I can agree that the document 
SUGGESTS/IMPLIES the behavior.

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--- Comment #10 from himajin100...@gmail.com ---
Wait, Excel returned #N/A too at least for =MATCH("",A1:A2,0)

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--- Comment #9 from himajin100...@gmail.com ---
typo:
empty string => empty cells

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--- Comment #8 from himajin100...@gmail.com ---
the only line that changes mbMatchEmpty is...

https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/source/core/tool/queryparam.cxx?r=db808563#295

FillInExcelSyntax is called by these functions.

https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/s?refs=FillInExcelSyntax=core

so matching empty string is currently available only in

SumIf
AverageIf
CountIf
SumIfs
AverageIfs
CountIfs
MinIfs
MaxIfs

Where IterateParametersIf or IterateParametersIfs is called or in DB-related
functions, and it does not work with Match.

https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/source/core/tool/interpr1.cxx?r=ceabe204#4667

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--- Comment #6 from David Lynch  ---
Still present as originally described in
Version: 5.2.4.2
Build ID: 3d5603e1122f0f102b62521720ab13a38a4e0eb0
Windows 10

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--- Comment #4 from David Lynch  ---
Still present as originally described in
Version: 5.0.3.2
Build ID: e5f16313668ac592c1bfb310f4390624e3dbfb75
Locale: en-GB (en_GB)
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If you have time, please do the following:

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--- Comment #2 from A (Andy) stgohi-lob...@yahoo.de ---
Reproducible with LO 4.3.2.2 (Win 8.1)

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Sören scren2...@yahoo.de changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Sören scren2...@yahoo.de ---
I can confirm the bug in
Version 4.0.0.0.beta2 (Build ID: 4104d660979c57e1160b5135634f732918460a0)
on Ubuntu 12.04 (x86)

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