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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW - getResultString() returns null on re-opened Results table"
   href="http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1157">1157</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>getResultString() returns null on re-opened Results table
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>ImageJ
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Windows
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P5
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Legacy
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>imagej-bugs@imagej.net
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>jan.eglinger@gmail.com
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        <pre>As noticed by 'user3772045' on stackoverflow.com [1], the
`getResultString("Column", row)` returns `null` when run on a results table
that was opened from a file.

The following macro reproduces the issue:

    row = nResults;
    dir = getDirectory("temp");

    setResult("String", row, "xyz");
    setResult("Number", row, 5.0);

    // get results from new table
    print(getResultString("String", 0));
    print(getResult("Number", 0));

    saveAs("Results", dir + "Results.xls");
    open(dir + "Results.xls");

    // get results from re-opened table
    print(getResultString("String", 0));
    print(getResult("Number", 0));


On a related note, repeated runs of this macro (with the results table open)
result in unexpected behaviour: a new "String" column is created, and the
string and number values get filled into the wrong columns.

Cheers,
Jan

[1]: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/32468347/1919049">http://stackoverflow.com/q/32468347/1919049</a></pre>
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