Re: [slang-users] integer() returns unexpected values

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remko van der Vossen <wich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:29:15PM -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
>> I did not expect integer() to do the following:
>> 
>> slsh> integer("023");
>> 19
>
> It is pretty common to interpret integers with a leading zero as octal,
> which is indeed what happens in this case.
> I don't know the exact specs of integer, but I would not be surprised if
> it also supports 0x12ab notation for hexadecimal and perhaps also 1010b
> for binary.

Yes, that is correct.  For decimal integers, the `atoi` function can
be used:

  slsh> atoi("023");
  23
  integer("0b10111");
  23

I see that I need to update the docs to suggest atoi as an alternative.

Thanks,
--John