On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 23:13:33 +0100, Phi Debian wrote: > 029 is not a number
Many people would disagree. Of course, it depends on the needs of the script that's being written -- that's why the wiki page offers so many different answers. In my experience, it's pretty rare for a script to *want* to treat zero-padded numeric input as octal.
