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RE: When does 10 = 8?

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RE: When does 10 = 8?
by Hijexx at 10:48 am EDT, Jun 28, 2007

Acidus wrote:
In octal of course!

var x = 010;
alert(x); //displays 8

In JavaScript, Numeric Literals with leading 0's are treated as octal literals, unless the prefix is 0x, in which case its hex.

Yeah, I remember when this first bit me in Perl. "WTF???" was my reaction.

RE: When does 10 = 8?


 
 
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