Re: bash man page needs more examples...(i.e. >0)

[Linda Walsh]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> writes:
>
>   
> > var=0a32; echo $var
> > -bash: 0a32: value too great for base (error token is "0a32")
> >     
>
> Which part of "Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal
> numbers" did you not understand?
>   
The part that said the ones that start with 0 and are followed by an 
'x', indicating hex
don't mean octal -- someone might thing that 0 followed by a base 
indicator might
be a valid construction, presuming that had any creativity or ability to 
come up with
alternatives.


>   
> > var=a#32; echo $var
> > -bash: a#32: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is
> > "#32")
> >     
>
> Which part of "base is a decimal number between 2 and 64" did you not
> understand?
>   

The part that says:
     digits greater than 9  are  represented
     by  the  lowercase  letters,  the  uppercase letters, @, and _, in 
that
     order. 
----
   Again, What part of that do you not get?   Obviously, you are saying 
that you either are just
as confused as I am or you haven't read the documentation (or at least 
not in the same way I read
it...)...

    It is notable, that while you are able to point out things that I 
already knew didn't work, you didn't point out what DID work.

   Thanks for your backhanded answer to the question...I now understand 
what was meant were, but the man page is far from clear, IMO, there are 
obviously (see above) alternative interpretations that are incorrect. 

ie. it means decimal numbers before the # sign, and letters after it. 

I love you too dear!

;-)