Re: [libreoffice-users] Concatenate Function inCalc

Howdy,

I believe that the difference is in where the function hails from:
CONCATENATE is defined in the ODF standard.
CONCAT comes by way of Excel support.

I think you have a point about how the system should respond when
erroneously using ranges for the ODF function (not supported) and could be
worth opening an issue.

Best wishes,

Drew

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:31 AM Michael H <cmahte@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why are we defending invalid output of a function?
>
> When I send invalid data like range to a function, say ABS(c1:c4), I expect
> it to return an error (#VALUE! comes up in linux).
>
> In linux on LO 6.0.7, I'm getting the 2nd value in the range as a valid
> output of the function CONCATENATE(C1:C4).  That is erroneous. broken.
> should-not-happen.
>
> This thread is about CONCATENATE being disfunctional in that it accepts
> ranges, but does not act on them correctly. Please stop referring to CONCAT
> as the reason that CONCATENATE is broken.
>
> However, in regard to CONCAT, I see zero reason for the CONCATENATE
> function to be separate from CONCAT.  CONCATENATE  should be replaced with
> an alias or redirect to CONCAT. But thats not a bug, just poor design.
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Robert Großkopf <robert@familiegrosskopf.de
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > > CONCATENATE must either fail to accept ranges (with an error), or
> accept
> > > them and provide the combination that acceptance suggests. It is a bug
> > that
> > > it accepts ranges, but returns something else.
> >
> > Have opened Calc and looking for fuction CONCATENATE. Help in the dialog
> > says: "Combines several text items into one."
> > Then looked for CONCAT. Help in the dialog says: "Combines several text
> > items into one, accepts cell ranges as arguments."
> >
> > I don't see in the help CONCATENATE accepts cell ranges.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Robert
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