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ID	15🔗
Date:	2013-01-08 14:01:20
Status	Closed (Fixed)
Category	datatool
Version	2.11
Summary	`\DTLgetvalueforkey` fails when key=0

Description

Thank you for datatool!; it has revolutionized my workflow.

Please see the attached MWE.. pdflatex output looks like:

5.045455
Undefined Value
23.227273
32.318182
41.409091

MWE

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{data.out}
LOGDISTANCE,distance,barnum
-1,0.100000,5.045455
0,1.000000,14.136364
1,10.000000,23.227273
2,100.000000,32.318182
3,1000.000000,41.409091
4,10000.000000,50.500000
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage{datatool}

\listfiles

\begin{document}

\DTLloadrawdb{MyDBase}{data.out}

\DTLgetvalueforkey\Onekm{barnum}{MyDBase}{LOGDISTANCE}{-1} \Onekm

\DTLgetvalueforkey\Onekm{barnum}{MyDBase}{LOGDISTANCE}{0} \Onekm

\DTLgetvalueforkey\Onekm{barnum}{MyDBase}{LOGDISTANCE}{1} \Onekm

\DTLgetvalueforkey\Onekm{barnum}{MyDBase}{LOGDISTANCE}{2} \Onekm

\DTLgetvalueforkey\Onekm{barnum}{MyDBase}{LOGDISTANCE}{3} \Onekm

\end{document}

Evaluation

The test for null was incorrectly interpreting 0 as a null value. Fixed in v2.13 (2013-01-15).

Comments

1 comment.

🔗Comment from OP
Date: 2013-03-15 05:45:29

Thanks!

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