[bug-gawk] Indexing Arrays with number which have leading zero behaves unexpected

[Kolbe, Wulf]

Dear All,
please find enclosed a small program which shows an effect during indexing 
arrays with numbers which have leading zeros.
It behaves at least unexpected for me, because of the behavior changes during 
increasing the index number.
If you run all numbers from 000-to255, then it works between 000-064, then 
there is a gap of approx. 16 places and then it works again.

BEGIN{
B[04]=2; printf("%d\n",B[4]);printf("%d\n",B[04]);
B[064]=42; printf("%d\n",B[64]);printf("%d\n",B[064]);
}

This effect was found on CoCalc Clouds gawk 4.1.3 but also verified on a lot of 
older versions.
The leading zeros were written to visually inspect lists with values like 
palette definitions and there the effect shows as funny gab in the palette.


Wulf

Wulf Kolbe
Innovation Manager
DEUTA Werke GmbH
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D-51465 Bergisch Gladbach
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