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ROUNDDOWN calculation #4213

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NathanDid opened this issue Nov 4, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #4214
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ROUNDDOWN calculation #4213

NathanDid opened this issue Nov 4, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #4214

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@NathanDid
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This is:

- [x] a bug report
- [ ] a feature request
- [ ] **not** a usage question (ask them on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/phpspreadsheet or https://gitter.im/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet)

Hello,

I've found an issue with ROUNDDOWN usage (tested with 1.29.2, 3.3.0 versions. It is working for 1.29.1 version).
I've read that results can be different with php8.4 but I'm using php8.3 right now.

Do I have to lock my phpoffice/phpspreadsheet version to 1.29.1 till I'm not using php8.4 ?

What is the expected behavior?

$calculation->calculateFormula('=ROUNDDOWN(249.9975,0)') // Should return 249

What is the current behavior?

$calculation->calculateFormula('=ROUNDDOWN(249.9975,0)') // Returns 250 with 1.29.2 and 3.3.0 versions

What are the steps to reproduce?

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// Create new Spreadsheet object
$calculation = new Calculation();
$res = $calculation->calculateFormula('=ROUNDDOWN(249.9975,0)');

What features do you think are causing the issue

  • Reader
  • Writer
  • Styles
  • Data Validations
  • Formula Calculations
  • Charts
  • AutoFilter
  • Form Elements

Which versions of PhpSpreadsheet and PHP are affected?

1.29.2 and 3.3.0 versions for php8.3

@oleibman
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oleibman commented Nov 4, 2024

These functions (ROUNDDOWN, ROUND, ROUNDUP, TRUNC) are tough to get right. We have many test cases, and continue to add to those as users like yourself report problems, or as we notice problems when Php changes (or will change) things. I will have to investigate what is going wrong here.

oleibman added a commit to oleibman/PhpSpreadsheet that referenced this issue Nov 5, 2024
Fix PHPOffice#4213. Early versions of Php 8.4 caused problems for some Excel functions, among them ROUNDDOWN and ROUNDUP. New code was added which seemed to work for 8.4 and all prior releases (back to 7.4). However, as the issue shows, there is a problem with the new logic that had not been a problem for prior releases (PhpSpreadsheet 1.29.1 with Php 8.3 or earlier).

As it happens, some time after 8.4 broke the existing functionality, new features were added to it which enabled much cleaner logic. The code will now take this cleaner path when available, and revert to the older logic when not. This appears to work for all relevant Php releases, at least till the next non-match between PhpSpreadsheet and Excel is reported.

And, having made the change to ROUNDDOWN, it occurred to me that ROUNDDOWN always returns the same result as TRUNC (they differ only in number of required arguments). So I changed TRUNC to call ROUNDDOWN, and that didn't break anything. So I will keep that change. This probably means I should change Calculation so that ROUNDDOWN is called automatically, and deprecate TRUNC. That can happen at a later time.
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