Re: [FWP] Puzzle - Can you find the bug faster than I did?

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 03:23:41PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "VB" == Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> writes:
> 
> VB> The input data file looked like:
> 
> VB> g1840610        417     417     { 1-417 }       Initial 1.3
> VB> HINT: The previous data values looked like this
> VB> 7500123N        417     417     { 1-417 }       Initial 1.3
> 
> VB> 	    if (($field1 == $prev_clone) || ($i == 1)) {
> 
> VB> Do you see the bug?
> 
> The changed data made the problem obvious.

I thought it was obvious even without the changed data.  :)

The big hint was that she kept getting "Part of same ID" every time.  This
suggests that there is a bug in comparing the current id to the previous id
-- and that is indeed the bug.

Having the code itself to look at was almost too much!  *grin*


Ronald




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