PQA Dynamic Lists
- Changed Dynamic Lists to properly handle bad data
Dynamic Lists and Bad Data
I now have pqamerge properly creating Dynamic Lists. In the past I would call SetFieldChoiceList, which would allow validate and commit to work, but which wouldn't actually add a member to the Dynamic List. I've since changed that.
The first problem I hit was that Clearquest would treat "1.A" as the same as "1.a". So when pqamerge attempted to add "1.a" to the Dynamic List it would fail. I needed to compare ignoring case. In Perl usually one uses a regex for that and specifies "i" to ignore case.
if ($var =~ /^$pattern$/i) {
<matched ignoring case>
} # if
But some of the values of the various Dynamic Lists contain regex meta characters (e.g. "?" or "(") which caused me problems. I've fixed those now.
if ("\L$var\E" eq "\L$pattern\E") {
<matched ignoring case>
} # if
The above basically says to downshift characters between the "\L" and the "\E". Then a regular eq is used so as to avoid problems with interpreting regex meta characters.