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Perl-Critic-0.13
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/ Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitLeadingZeros

NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitLeadingZeros

DESCRIPTION

Perl interprets numbers with leading zeros as octal. If that's what you really want, its better to use oct and make it obvious.

  $var = 041;     #not ok, actually 33
  $var = oct(41); #ok

AUTHOR

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>

Copyright (c) 2005 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.