Having completely forgotten about octal numbers (didn't they die

out with the four-toed sloth??) this one caught me short. I'm

reading a fixed format string that contains 24hr times, and the

times with leading zeroes stuff up:





#include	

#include	

#include	



int main()

{

 char *s = "1245 2330 0400";

 int l,m,n;



 /* c version */

 sscanf(s, "%i %i %i", &l,&m,&n);

 printf("%i %i %i\n", l,m,n);



 /* c++ version */

 istrstream test(s, strlen(s));

 test >> l >> m >> n;

 printf("%i %i %i\n", l,m,n);



 return 0;

}





The result of this proglet is



1245 2330 256

1245 2330 256



because C treats numbers with leading zeroes as base 8 numbers.



I can see several ways of getting around this, but they all seem

kludgy. Am I missing something obvious? Is there an elegant way to

get C or C++ to read 0400 as 400dec instead of 256dec?



Cheers





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