Update: Okay, I realized I was misreading the sprintf documentation on padding during numeric conversions. How about this:
use constant OTHER_READ => sprintf("%.4o", 0001)
No, why that? If you put soemthing into your db it does not matter if the num is oct hex or dec. The same goes for other operators that you like to use +-|& for example. 
  # all three lines do exactly the same.
  chmod  0644, $file;
  chmod   420, $file;
  chmod 0x1a4, $file;

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Boris

In reply to Re: Unwanted Octal to Decimal Conversion by borisz
in thread Unwanted Octal to Decimal Conversion by djantzen

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