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Re: How would you go about it?by ysth (Canon) |
on Jul 26, 2004 at 01:10 UTC ( [id://377327]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
oct is a poor tool to use on user input; while it will nicely allow
entry of octal (default), hex, or binary numbers, it will also silently return 0 on garbage.
You might do the conversion up front and die if the value is 0 and the input string wasn't /^(0[bx])?0+\z/. Update: That's not good enough; it will complain if the string starts 0x or 0b and there are illegal hex or binary digits, but not complain if there are valid octal digits followed by garbage :(.
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