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

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 03 August 2015 09:31:48 AM Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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; 

Correct

> I could've sworn that this was working last year...

Nope.  This has been true since at least version 4.4 (March 2010)
although the error message has changed:


        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.4 patchlevel 0
        last modified March 2010
        System: Linux 3.14.43-desktop-1.mga4

        Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2010
        Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

        gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info
        faq, bugs, etc:   type "help seeking-assistance"
        immediate help:   type "help"
        plot window:      hit 'h'

Terminal type set to 'wxt'
gnuplot> month = 08
              ^
         ';' expected
gnuplot> foo = 077
gnuplot> print foo
63


> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
>