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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46493] Incorrect result from fscanf and scanf


From: Philip Nienhuis
Subject: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46493] Incorrect result from fscanf and scanf with %i format
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:07:07 +0000
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Follow-up Comment #7, bug #46493 (project octave):

@Mike:
Whether it's a bug or not might be debatable. 
All we can say is that Octave is compatible with Matlab (but perhaps
bug-for-bug compatible).
IMO it can be argued that "09" should also be something that "breaks the
recognition of the number as octal" (as per comment #3).

But Matlab itself has the final word:
In table Input Arguments of
http://nl.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/sscanf.html: "... If initial digit is
0, it is base 8."

I'd conclude that Matlab's base detection logic is a bit quick and dirty, but
we have to live with it.

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