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Re: Strange IDL string bug [message #4820 is a reply to message #4818]

Wed, 09 August 1995 00:00

$Rolf P. W\"urtz is currently offline$ Rolf P. W\"urtz
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Registered: June 1995

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Justin Baker <justinb@bom.gov.au> wrote:

>
> I quickly discovered that there seems to be a problem with " quoted strings if
> they start with a digit.
>

The error is due to the fact that "123 means the _octal_ value of 123. How
somebody could get this idea is beyond me. Even stranger than a leading zero,
IMHO. To make it even more interesting, IDL does not check for unbalanced
quotes, so the following works:

%print, '123
123
%print, "123
83

Lovely, isn't it?

Rolf

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