Hello all, I'm experiencing some VERY odd behavior in this piece of software we purchased. For some reason, the "Save as PDF" functionality errors out. I've narrowed the problem down to the order of the records within the csv data file. For example, if the records are in this order (in the "Good.csv" file), it successfully creates a PDF:
* 963
* 964
* 965
* 966
* 699
* 700
* 701
* 702
BUT, when the order is changed to this (in the "Bad.csv" file), it fails:
* 699
* 700
* 701
* 702
* 963
* 964
* 965
* 966
People didn't believe me when I told them, so I created a video. You can watch the VIDEO here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PSWCziosdM
The company who made the software is "looking into the issue"... but I'm curious... what in the world could be causing behavior like this? I don't know what language the program is developed in... but I would think that regardless of that, just by changing the order of records within a CSV file, it shouldn't do this...
Has anyone ever seen a piece of software bomb out when the order of records is changed around?
I could MAYBE understand this behavior if the records were not in some logical order... but that's not the case here. If it's in a seemingly random order, it works... but if you change the records to be in ascending order, it fails!
Anyone ever see something like this?