Re: value too great for base (error token is "0008")

[Eric Blake]

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According to Greg Wooledge on 11/4/2009 6:23 AM:
> On the other hand, removing a single leading zero is not difficult:
> 
>   month=$(date +%m) month=${month#0}   # Removing leading 0

Not portable.  Assigning the same variable twice in the same statement has
different order of operations in some shells.  Use:

month=$(date +%m); month=${month#0}

instead.

>   next_month=$(( ($month == 12) ? 1 : $month+1 ))
> 
> Removing multiple leading zeroes, however, requires either a loop, or the
> use of extended globs.

Not true.  You can do it via POSIX and without a loop by using an
intermediate variable:

foo=00081
bar=${foo%%[!0]*}
foo=${foo#$bar}}

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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