Re: Re: octal error

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Re: octal error (converting octal to string) sprintf by mandog (Curate) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:35 UTC
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;` [download] --mandog	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: octal error by suaveant (Parson) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:28 UTC
Well, how does the user input it? It should already be a string if read in from STDIN or anything like that... - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: octal error by Gerryjun (Scribe) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:33 UTC
its comming from a form but the octal error happens!	[reply]
(tye)Re2: octal error by tye (Sage) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:38 UTC
You must be using eval, then. Stop it. (: - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]