On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:12:48PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.
>
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> [Please enter your report here]
>
> From perlfunc(1):
>
> oct EXPR ...
> (If EXPR happens to start off with 0x, interprets
> it as a hex string. If EXPR starts off with 0b,
> it is interpreted as a binary string.)
>
> But the binary string conversion doesn't seem to work:
>
> natto% perl -e 'print oct("0b11000110")."\n"'
> 0
>
> This is otherwise a valid binary string:
>
> natto% perl -e 'print unpack('C', (pack("B8", "11000110")))."\n"'
> 198
>
> The hex string conversion function does work:
>
> natto% perl -e 'print oct("0xC6")."\n"'
> 198
The following comments pertain to the version of Perl used in FreeBSD,
since this was cited as a FreeBSD 4.0 problem.
This is still true for Perl 5.005_03 in -stable, but it seems to have
been fixed in Perl 5.6.0 in -current. I believe this will be fixed
when Perl 5.6 is MFC'd (btw, FreeBSD developers, FreeBSD Perl gurus,
when/if shall Perl 5.6 be MFC'd? :)
Thus, I believe this is not (anymore) a Perl problem per se, since it
is fixed in the newer versions.
G'luck,
Peter
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