[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40490] io 1.2.4: odsread yields errors if filename is too short

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #40490 (project octave):

              Item Group:                   Crash => Regression             
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
             Assigned to:                    None => philipnienhuis         
        Operating System:               GNU/Linux => Any                    
                 Summary: io 1.2.4: odsread crashes if filename is short => io
1.2.4: odsread yields errors if filename is too short

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Confirmed.
The code was copied from the excel side, where fileparts() would not easily
catch all cases, and had a special extension test order to avoid exactly this
bug.

But funny that my test scripts didn't catch it.

Markus informed me of yet another bug.

Then there is the issue of a buggy unpack.m in core 3.6.4 (see bug #39148)
hampering .xlsx OCT support in Octave 3.6.x. 
Could be fixed by including the fixed unpack.m from the dev version in the io
inst/ subdir.

There may be an io-1.2.5 soon, to cater for staunch 3.6.x users.
But I'll await more bug reports for a little while.

BTW some devs around here would call this an incorrect result rather than a
crash - AFAIU the latter is reserved for cases where Octave itself is going
down ==> title adapted=> regression (as it used to work OK)

Thanks for reporting

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