On 7/9/07, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not-a-bug

Numbers starting with a '0' are interpreted as Octal like in C; e.g.

printf "%02i" 011

gets you 09.


Obviously, "Invalid octal number" would have been a more helpful error message.

James.


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