Hash assignment (what's happening?)

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From within irb, I'm creating a hash and populating it with the
following data.

irb(main):007:0> {:QHector => 1967, :WKelly => 2551, :ECron => 0220,
:VLaura => 4003, :LWalter => 1188}

Why is the value for the ':ECron' coming back as 144 instead of 0220?

=> {:ECron=>144, :VLaura=>4003, :LWalter=>1188, :QHector=>1967,
:WKelly=>2551}
irb(main):008:0>

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Hector Quiroz wrote:

From within irb, I'm creating a hash and populating it with the
following data.

irb(main):007:0> {:QHector => 1967, :WKelly => 2551, :ECron => 0220,
:VLaura => 4003, :LWalter => 1188}

Why is the value for the ':ECron' coming back as 144 instead of 0220?

=> {:ECron=>144, :VLaura=>4003, :LWalter=>1188, :QHector=>1967,
:WKelly=>2551}
irb(main):008:0>

Thanks for your help in advance.

Oops, the number is being interpreted by ruby as an Octal! Duh.

hq

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I think this could help :slight_smile:
http://blog.wordaligned.org/articles/2006/08/12/octal-literals

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On Oct 5, 4:16 pm, Hector Quiroz <hqui...@enh.org> wrote:

From within irb, I'm creating a hash and populating it with the
following data.

irb(main):007:0> {:QHector => 1967, :WKelly => 2551, :ECron => 0220,
:VLaura => 4003, :LWalter => 1188}

Why is the value for the ':ECron' coming back as 144 instead of 0220?

=> {:ECron=>144, :VLaura=>4003, :LWalter=>1188, :QHector=>1967,
:WKelly=>2551}
irb(main):008:0>

Thanks for your help in advance.
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Prefixing a '0' to a number makes it octal. Either make it a string or don't
add the 0.

Jason

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On 10/5/07, Hector Quiroz <hquiroz@enh.org> wrote:

From within irb, I'm creating a hash and populating it with the
following data.

irb(main):007:0> {:QHector => 1967, :WKelly => 2551, :ECron => 0220,
:VLaura => 4003, :LWalter => 1188}

Why is the value for the ':ECron' coming back as 144 instead of 0220?

=> {:ECron=>144, :VLaura=>4003, :LWalter=>1188, :QHector=>1967,
:WKelly=>2551}
irb(main):008:0>

Thanks for your help in advance.
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