On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 08:00, Harry Putnam<rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: snip > Can anyone tell me how printing of $mode = 0755 turns into 493? snip > my $mode = 0755; snip > print "hpdb chmod $mode $fname\n"; snip
0755 is 493. More specifically they are two representations of the same number: the first is in octal (base 8) and the second is in decimal (base 10). If you wish to print the number as octal you must use [printf][1] or [sprintf][2]: printf "hpdb chmod 0%o %s\n", $mode, $fname; [1] : http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/printf.html [2] : http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sprintf.html -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
