typeset sem-failures in PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2

[Matt Wozniski]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> Hello:
>
> The following simple script fails to produce a leading "0" on variable
> "nextnum".  Am I doing something wrong or did I discover a bug?
>
> PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
> /home/paul.$ cat /lbin/testit2
> #!/bin/pdksh
> n="06"
> typeset -L2 nextnum
> nextnum=`expr $n + 01`
> echo $nextnum
>
> /home/paul.$  /lbin/testit2  7

Looks like the correct behavior to me - the result is 7 (which is 06 +
1) left aligned, just like you asked for.  Were you looking for
"typeset -Z2" instead, for right aligned with zero padding in a field
of width two?

~Matt

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