Bug #90344 for Date-Manip: Events_List in DM6 complains if date isn't in an event

Wed Nov 13 21:39:02 2013 http://tangentsoft.net/ - Ticket created

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Events_List in DM6 complains if date isn't in an event

If you pass Events_List() a date that isn't covered by one of the events in the config file, it complains: WARNING: [cmp] Arguments must be valid dates: date2 Use of uninitialized value in integer ne (!=) at /Library/Perl/5.12/Date/Manip/Date.pm line 4550. Can't call method "cmp" on an undefined value at /Library/Perl/5.12/Date/Manip/Date.pm line 4563. Run the attached test script against the attached DateManip.cnf to see the problem. Change the hardcoded date string in the test script to 'Dec 30' to see that the warning goes away. This problem does not happen in DM5 under Perl 5.8.8. (This is why I'm still using the non-OO interface, by the way.)

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Wed Nov 13 21:41:31 2013 http://tangentsoft.net/ - Correspondence added

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By the way, you can also make the message go away by adding: Jan 1 ; Dec 31 = everything to the DateManip.cnf file, but that creates a special case that my program has to handle which isn't as elegant as checking for an empty return from Event_List().

Wed Nov 13 21:41:31 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Nov 19 15:16:32 2013 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This is now fixed and will be in the next release (which is due out the beginning of December). If you need a version earlier, you can contact me, or you can just add the line: return () if (! @tmp2); at line 4558 in Date.pm (just before sorting @tmp2).

Tue Nov 19 15:16:32 2013 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'