On 18 Jan, David Mannan wrote:
> Greetings TCL World;
>
> I've been having a problem with variables set by the system "date" command
> whenever the day of the month/year is "008" or "009". This has popped up
> several
> times before, and is easy enough to patch around - but now it has moved to
> "018".
>
> Has anyone seen this before, and more importantly does anyone know a fix
> for
> it.
>
> What I'm using: HPUX 10.20
> VTcl version: 1.20
>
> What I'm doing:
>
> global ExpireDate;
> set ExpireDate [exec date +%j]
> set bob [expr $ExpireDate + 90]
> if {$bob >= 365} { set ExpireDate [expr $bob - 365 ]
> } else { set ExpireDate $bob }
>
>
> What it says:
>
> Error in startup script: syntax error in expression "018 + 90"
> while executing
> "expr $ExpireDate + 90"
> (procedure "init" line 28)
> invoked from within
> "init $argc $argv"
> (file "/opt/a7tools/ListManager/Scripts/listmanager.tcl" line 167)
>
>
>
> This error only occurred when the day of the month, or day of year
> is 08 & 09. Today it popped up again. I have worked around this by
> setting the variable like this:
> set ExpireDate {8}
> but what I would like to know is why this happens and how to fix it.
> And now that it is happening on "018". My concern is, that I will have to
> set conditions for every day that ends in a 8 or 9.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Well, take a look at the Tcl FAQ. There are workarounds for this
available. The problem is that 0x is interpreted as octal an in octal
notation, 8 and 9 are invalid numbers.
L
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