Re: Error in number comparison

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Miles Bader) writes:

|> 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.

Using the --posix option is perhaps better.

Andreas.

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