cannot set saving

[JeremyKwok]

Unable to set saving. Error message shown does not help with setting savings.

[nus-pe-bot]

Team's Response

Unable to reproduce the behavior reported in the bug.
This behavior could be something to do with copying and pasting the command directly from the .pdf file
(Prof stated that copying from .pdf directly etc might result in errors due to the encoding of additional "hidden" characters, resulting in the failure to capture the exact string)

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❓ Issue response

Team chose [response.CannotReproduce]

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement:
I realise on hindsight that the bug report is bad. But the issue from copying lies in 2 causes.

1. The character set is different
2. There are hidden spaces. Hidden spaces are 0 width spaces. This is likely the issue.
   We can add an additional space after 400, before monthly to reproduce the error.

The User Guide does not specify what kind of inputs are valid but gives the format of the commands. It is conceivable that the legitimate user behavior of mistyping or adding an additional space has occurred. The parser should handle this behavior and either correct it by stripping the additional space which is not useful or feedback to the User through the UI. I.e. The parser should give a more specific feedback on the format. If the input around the keywords used are not sanitised by the parser, the team can consider specifying that the keywords have to be strictly single space separated from the other parts of the input. Otherwise, the team can also consider using a specific delimiter that can be escaped for users.

The parser should handle input which is conceivable for the user to mistype and provide feedback on common cases. Additional spaces are quite common, and the bug can be easily fixed through stripping spaces for different identified subsections of the input to prevent confusion and make the feature more useful.

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