Re: Convert 08 to decimal 8

Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
2007-09-07, 15:35(+01), SiKing:
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Hmmm, I am going to have to use "s/^0*//", because I have leading zeros (zeroes?) - plural.
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That will turn 0 or 000 into the empty string.

Right, I just figured that out too. :(

But can bash not do this on its own?
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bash, non standard:

What does that mean?

a=$((10#$a))

So that(!) is the secret syntax...

standard:

case a in (0*[!0]*) a=${a#${a%%[!0]*}};; esac

Whoa! That took me like 10 minutes to parse in my head.

Thank You!
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