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Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10# |
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Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:09:22 -0400 |
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On 7/10/18 6:44 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> I think the problematic case here is when the number comes as input from
> some program, which might or might not print a leading sign or leading
> zeroes, but when we know that the number is, in any case, decimal.
>
> E.g. 'date' prints leading zeroes, which is easy enough to handle:
>
> hour=$(date +%H)
>
> hour=${hour#0} # remove one leading zero, or
> hour="10#$hour" # make it base-10
>
> The latter works even with more than one leading zero, but neither works
> with a sign. So, handling numbers like '-00159' gets a bit annoying:
That is not an integer constant. Integer constants don't begin with `-'.
Bash uses the same definition for constants as the C standard, with the
addition of the `base#value' syntax.
Since the `10#' notation is sufficient to deal with leading zeroes if you
want to force decimal, you only have to remove a leading unary plus or
minus.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
- Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Isaac Marcos, 2018/07/09
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Clint Hepner, 2018/07/09
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Ilkka Virta, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Ilkka Virta, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#,
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- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Isaac Marcos, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Eduardo Bustamante, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Isaac Marcos, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Isaac Marcos, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Chet Ramey, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Robert Elz, 2018/07/13
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Chet Ramey, 2018/07/10
- Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Pierre Gaston, 2018/07/10
Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#, Chet Ramey, 2018/07/10