Re: ksh bug or just normal behaviour?

[Thomas Schweikle]

Am Mi., 02.Aug..2023 um 13:45:26 schrieb Peter N. M. Hansteen:

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 11:35:39AM +0000, Ioan Samarul wrote:

Can you please tell me if this is a bug or it is considered normal?

$ set -A test a b c d e f g h i
$ echo ${test[07]}
h
$ echo ${test[08]}
ksh: 08: bad number `08'
$ echo ${test[8]}
i

I strongly suspect you stumbled on to a case of the old convention "numerals 
with
leading zeroes are interpreted as octal notation" (but do check the underlying
code to make sure).

Yes, that is it. It is considered octal notation.


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Thomas

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