From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T22:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Please explain that

> Can you please explain this behaviour ?
>
> irb(main):017:0> 071.to_s
> => "57"
> irb(main):018:0> 71.to_s
> => "71"
>
> Why is an octal Number converted to decimal when outputted as String ?

Let's take a look at ri Fixnum#to_s:

fix.to_s( base=10 ) -> aString
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Returns a string containing the representation of _fix_ radix
     _base_ (between 2 and 36).

Here you have it - default base is 10.

Regards,
Rimantas
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