I've noticed (to my big surprise) that the Borland C++ library reads in
numbers in a strange way: If the number begins with digit '0' (zero) it is
treated as octal!!! I did not find any reference to this behaviour; so can
someone tell me if this is a feature or a bug?

Direct replies preferred.

Ulrich

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Ulrich Windl
Universitaet Regensburg, Rechenzentrum DV-med
Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11
D-93042 Regensburg, Germany
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In article <29b6a6INNnr6@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>, c9524@rrzc1a (Ulrich Windl) writes:
|> I've noticed (to my big surprise) that the Borland C++ library reads in
|> numbers in a strange way: If the number begins with digit '0' (zero) it is
|> treated as octal!!! I did not find any reference to this behaviour; so can
|> someone tell me if this is a feature or a bug?

Leading 0 indicates octal in both C and C++.

Please direct this kind of question to comp.lang.c++, not comp.std.c++.

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