in reply to octal error

quote it... $item = '05540986';  #do not change! a leading 0 in an unquoted number in perl makes it octal... 
print "Urk\n" if(777 != 0777);

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Re: Re: octal error
by Gerryjun (Scribe) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:25 UTC
    i know but i cant quote it its from a user input! $item = 05540986;# dont change! i must convert this to a string to another variable but how?
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      In reply to Gerryjun question on how to keep user input from being interpreted as Octal. in this thread 
      my $test=<STDIN>;
my $test=sprintf("%s",$test);
print $test;

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      Well, how does the user input it? It should already be a string if read in from STDIN or anything like that...

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        its comming from a form but the octal error happens!
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