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Re: GAH!!!!!! Excel is so STUPID!

Bill wrote:
But isn't that the purpose of documentation, to tell us of things like that? The help text for Excel 2003 is pretty straightforward:

True ... of course I didn't construct the spreadsheet ... however (at least IMO) it's unreasonable and unnatural for a function to return different output values for the same input based on somewhat arbitrary environmental conditions. A double byte character is a double byte character, regardless of the default language.

I generally consider character functions to be deterministic ... they will return the same output for the same input.

Based on what I've seen today, the LENB (and all the other 'B' functions in excel) are totally unreliable and cannot be trusted ... especially if you might need to send the spread sheet to someone else who is not operating in the same environment that you are.

david


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