From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-10T23:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.0: Error on "%02d" % "08" or "%02d" % "09"

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:17:06 +0900, Thomas Link wrote:
> I'm using ruby 1.8.0 (Win native and cygwin version). These two commands

> "%02d" % "08"
> "%02d" % "09"

> result in the error

> `%': invalid value for Integer: "08" (ArgumentError)

irb(main):003:0> "%02d" % 08
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):3: Illegal octal digit
        from (irb):3

Leading zeros have a special meaning with integer values.

I'm not really sure of a way around this, especially if the numbers come 
from outside of your program.

-austin
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