On 9/18/24 1:10 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Thanks for the proposal. I think the [base#]n syntax is reasonable here without adding a new shell option.Do recall, however, that negative numbers break the workaround suggested by Andreas. $((10#${line:12:2}))
Not part of the original problem statement.
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