Re: String to Octal

fuch6921@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I want to read in an Octal number argument and have it stored as an
octal number.

What do you mean by 'storing it as an octal number' ?

The representation of a number dose not matter for C. Typically it is
stored as binary number. If you have an underlying machine which
can store 8 symbols for each "bit" only then can you store it as octal
number.

I have seen lot of beginners having this confusion with octal and
hexadecimal representations. It is better to be cleared off this
confusion in the beginning it self.

.

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