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#1 Posted by 69Samael69 (9 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Does the API ever return an <issue_number> that is not a number? i.e. "A", "B", "II", "IV", "18a", etc. If so, can someone please post an example volume? I'm writing a parser and don't want to write logic to handle non-numeric characters if I don't have to. It would make sorting substantially more difficult. Examples that come to mind, but are not reflected in ComicVine are the "error" issues in the Sandman series. In every guide, they're listed as 8a and, I believe, 19a, but there is no mention on ComicVine that I saw.

#2 Posted by jamesewelch (616 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I'm not sure, but I think the form validation on adding new issues requires the issue number to be an integer. CV doesn't handle variants as different items, so there's no Cover A, Cover B, 2nd print, etc. The comic guides track variants because there's different prices associated with them. At CV, they are just tracking the issue and not the costs, so they don't list each variants.

#3 Posted by 69Samael69 (9 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

@jamesewelch: Thanks. My assumption is that it must be a number, but probably a "real number" or "Double". I know it will return things like 0.5 and 0.75 and I have one in my collection that is 52.50. So, I'll cast everything to Double and return a nice error in the off chance something else is returned.