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Re: Andy Serpa are you still around?

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Jan 13, 2006
• 455 views

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Andy Serpa wrote:
> > 
> > don cole wrote:
> > > 
> > > Andy Serpa wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > don cole wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > We found a slight bug in your nat_sort.e.
> > > > > Post something on the forum if you want to know about it.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Oh yeah?
> > > 
> > > Check it out what do you think?
> > 
> > 
> > Ahh yes, in the nat_compare_str() routine, x1num & x2num should be declared
> > as atoms.  Looks like I changed it in my personal version but never fixed
> > it.
> >  If declared as integers than long strings of numbers can cause integer
> >  overflow...
> 
> Hi there Andy,
> 
> 
> Could you also check to see that a long name such as:
>   "123456789012345678901234567890.jpg"
> still works ok when you're done fixing it?
> 
> When i want to check something like this with an unusual name
> i just create a text file in Win Explorer with whatever name
> i want to test with and then see how the program handles it
> when it is run.
> 
> 
I only changed one line -- declared as atoms instead of integers.  So any long
stream of digits that will successfully convert to an atom should work fine,
meaning your filenames could be dozens of digits long.  It had nothing to do with
decimal points because it ignores them anyway.