problem with qif-parse.scm in trunk

[David Reiser]

On Sep 14, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Charles Day wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:42 AM, David Reiser  
> <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> gnucash trunk r17505 fails on launch for me with:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>   ?: 0* [primitive-load-path "qif-import/qif-parse.scm"]
> In /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:
>  20: 1* (define decimal-radix-regexp #)
>  21: 2* [gsubr-apply #<primitive-procedure make-regexp> ...]
>
> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:21:3: In
> procedure make-regexp in expression (make-regexp "^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?
> [0-9]+[+-]?$|^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?([,'][0-9][0-9]
> [0-9])*(\\.[0-9]*)?[+-]? *$|^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]*[+-]? * 
> $"):
> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:21:3:
> illegal byte sequence
>
>
> Looks like something in r17490 didn't sit well with my tool set.
>
> Mac OS X 10.5.4
> gcc 4.0.1, autoconf 2.62 (2.63 readily available), automake 1.9.6
> (1.10.1 readily available)
> guile 1.8.3
>
> suggestions?
>
> Dave, I have just committed a patch that escapes the Pound symbol in  
> ASCII. Try updating your SVN to r17509 and see if that fixes it on  
> your system.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Charles

Same error. I've looked at the scm file in the install directory, and  
all the \xa3 substitutions are there. (In the prior version, bbedit  
was showing me the GBP symbol in the scm files, too.)

The only other thing I can think of that might matter is I'm using  
slib 3b1.

Dave
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David Reiser
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