in reply to Unwanted Octal to Decimal Conversion

I can't see the real problem here. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use constant GROUP_READ => 0040;
use constant OWNER_READ => 0400;
my $mask = GROUP_READ | OWNER_READ;
printf "my mask is %04o", $mask;

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Re: Re: Unwanted Octal to Decimal Conversion
by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 18, 2004 at 21:02 UTC

    I recommend "%05o" or "%#04o" because permission are 12 bit long and this way there will always be a preceding zero to indicate octalness.

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      You are right. then I like "0%04o". It is most readable for me.
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