Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsd!weiss
From: weiss@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (edward.j.weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: numeric from string
Message-ID: <13537@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 90 00:27:40 GMT
Reply-To: weiss@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (edward.j.weiss,ihp,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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To start out I'm using Release 3.0 PatchLevel 12.

Try out:

	perl -e '$m="0777"; $n = $m + 1; print $n,"\n";'

What should the answer be? 

I would guess that 0777 would be converted to a number by
using 8 as a base, but it doesn't.  Base 10 is used.
MisFeature?

I found trying to use chmod like:

	$mode=<>; chop; chmod($mode,$file);
-- 

Ed Weiss	   "I thought it was generally accepted, sir, that
att!ihlpf!spock     Vulcans are an advanced and most honorable race."
		   "They are, they are.  And damn annoying at times."