strtol

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <MATTES.90Nov19122748 at azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> mattes at azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eberhard Mattes) writes:
>Is the behavior of strtol defined in the ANSI standard?
Yes.

>What should
>    strtol ("089", NULL, 0)
>return?

It should return 0.  Since it is an octal number (based on the leading 0)
the scan stops at the first character not a digit in base 8 which is the
'8' thus the scanned string is "0" and hence 0 is returned.

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