Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Frank McCown -
Number of replies: 6

If I do an import with just a single question in the file (shown below and attached) that uses an apostrophe at column 50, the import fails with the error message: "Cannot insert question".

aaaaaaaaaa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyy's
A. test1
B. test2
ANSWER: A

However, if I move the apostrophe to column 49, it imports just fine.

This is not a UTF-8 issue as I've verified that's the file's encoding. I don't know what version of Moodle I'm using, but I assume it's relatively recent since my university uses it quite extensively.

My guess is this is a bug related to Moodle using the first 50 characters of the question as the title of the question when importing. Some programmers need to be severly flogged for this. wink

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Re: Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Tim Hunt -
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Well, that might be one approach to trying to motivate a programmer to fix the bug, I am not sure it is the most effective.

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Re: Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Frank McCown -

The "flogging" comment was made in jest, hence the wink emoticon. I'm a programmer too. smile

However, since this bug took me approximately 2 hours to find, some financial compensation would be nice. wink

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Re: Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Tim Hunt -
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MDL-28508

I expect this only affects Moodle 1.9 and older.

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Re: Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Frank McCown -

I was told we are using Moodle 1.9.11.

Looks like MDL-28508 says "Resolution:Unresolved". So I guess this hasn't been fixed yet?

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Re: Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Tim Hunt -
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If you really want to understand, you probably need to read http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Process

Where we are in the process is that I have coded the fix, and next Monday it should be reviewed, and if all goes well it should then be released in next Wednesday's 2.1.1+ weekly build.

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Re: Aiken import fails when apostrophe is used at column 50

by Frank McCown -

Sounds good. Thanks for fixing this.

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