[Gnuplot-info] Problem with octal numbers and "date"

[Dave H. <da...@ho...>]

Version 5.0 patchlevel 1    last modified 2015-06-07 

I've just spotted a weird problem in one of my scripts.  I'm manipulating 
the date, and I have the line "month = `date +%m`" to extract the month as 
a number.

Come August, and it appears as:

gnuplot> month = 08
                  ^
         "health.gp", line 51: unexpected or unrecognized token

My guess is that "08" is being parsed as an octal number, and hence 
invalid; I could've sworn that this was working last year...

Anyone else seeing this?

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