Re: Error in number comparison

[Miles Bader]

John Phillips <address@hidden> writes:
> I have a strange problem with Gawk.
> Prepending a zero to a number makes it unequal to the original number,
> except for single digit numbers.

I suspect gawk is treating them as octal numbers, using the `leading 0'
convention of C/C++ (the gawk documentation talks about this, in the
info node `(gawk)Nondecimal-numbers').

You can disable this behavior by using the `--traditional' option, but
this also turns off other gawk features; I'm not sure if there's anyway
to disable just the interpretation of octal constants.

-Miles
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