> On 2005-10-26, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Leading zeros are ambigious. Some platforms treat them as octal
> > others treat them as decimal.
>
> There is nothing ambiguous about the example provided. (Perhaps
> it wasn't a good example, but it's always a bug if '04' is not
> correctly decoded, regardless of the numeric base in use.)
You want a ambigious example?
192.168.222.012
Seen this sort of thing in real life when the admin wanted
to make the file look pretty and they wanted 12 for the last
octet not 10.
Seen boxes that used %03u.%03u.%03u.%03u to print out the
octets.
It's much easier to just reject octal and hexadecimal than
to work out when and when not it is ambigious. It is also
better to demand all 4 octets. It also generates less
support complaints.
Mark
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