Where documentation Parsing tools

 Hi ,
Where i can find documentation about parsing tools cited at https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/calculate/custom-function 

Thanks

3 Replies

DY Deivaselvan Y Syncfusion Team November 2, 2018 12:14 PM UTC

Hi Sergio, 

Thank you for using Syncfusion products. 

Parsing tools word in our documentation is refers to our built-in method CalcEngine.ParseFormula which is used to parse the formula in CalcEngine. We will consider to include this information in our documentation.

 
Please let us know if you have any concerns. 

Regards, 
Deivaselvan 



CA Carbonete November 2, 2018 04:00 PM UTC

Hi Deivaselvan

Sorry , i think my doubt is not well explained.

I´m tal about this paragraph 

"For writing a custom formula method, any convention with respect to passing arguments can be used within the implementation code. Thus, arguments can be a single entry 
like A1 or 153 or it can be more complex like A1:C15. The computed value will be returned as a string. The arguments can be enhanced with standard items like cell references, 
numbers, other formulas, etc., using the parsing tools of CalcEngine to minimize the amount of code that is required to be written."

Text talk about a parser that work with functions arguments, not to compute. And certanly its a more smart parser.

In example , use of Split to parse string is much simple.
 And Calculate not use it, for example  in CONCAT :
=CONCAT("use ," , "this , to demonstrate") 

if use SPLIT you not know you have double quote and return incorrect result.
But your argument parser made this correct, i think you have more smart parse than a simple SPLIT or REGX.

thanks



DY Deivaselvan Y Syncfusion Team November 5, 2018 11:23 AM UTC

Hi Sergio,

Thanks for your update.

We have considered your query and logged a report to update the missed details in UG document. It will be published in 2018 Volume 4 release which will be available on 2nd week of December.

Regards,
Deivaselvan 


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