printf bad ?

[Peter]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> The way you do numbers on unix is this:
> If it starts with 1-9 it is decimal.  If it starts with 0x it is hex,
> otherwise if it starts with 0 it is octal.  Since 08 isn't valid octal
> it should complain about it.

So decimal guys lose when working with the shell ? ;-)

thanks,
Peter
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