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Re: leading zeros ignored by perl, ksh. not bash
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: leading zeros ignored by perl, ksh. not bash |
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Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:02:42 -0400 |
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On 7/23/14, 4:49 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> I don't believe there are any cases in which ksh interprets a leading
> zero, at least not current versions. If you want octal you must use
> either 8#num or typeset -ibase. Same applies to both zsh and mksh
> AFAICT.
$ ksh93 -c 'echo $(( 010 ))'
8
Posix requires it.
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