> 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?

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

 return 0;
}

I don't know of any way of fixing this with sscanf() - but it may exist.

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