From ec64d632076882f386e3f72fffa62ccd9453e28c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:06:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added a note about parsing numbers with leading zeroes in ToLong/ToULong git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@14306 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex b/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex index 7f68813c74..deeba32b3c 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex @@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ if the string does not represent such number. \membersection{wxString::ToLong}\label{wxstringtolong} -\constfunc{bool}{ToLong}{\param{long}{ *val}, \param{int }{base = 0}} +\constfunc{bool}{ToLong}{\param{long}{ *val}, \param{int }{base = $0$}} Attempts to convert the string to a signed integer in base {\it base}. Returns {\tt TRUE} on success in which case the number is stored in the location @@ -932,7 +932,11 @@ valid number in the given base. The default value of {\it base} $0$ is special and means that the usual rules of {\tt C} numbers are applied: if the number starts with {\tt 0x} it is considered to be in base $16$, if it starts with {\tt 0} - in base $8$ and in -base $10$ otherwise. +base $10$ otherwise. Note that you may want to specify the base $10$ explicitly +if you are parsing the numbers which may have leading zeroes as otherwise the +string {\tt "09"} may not be parsed correctly: it would be understood as an +octal number because of the leading zero and the parsing would then fail as +{\tt '9'} is not a valid octal digit. \wxheading{See also} @@ -941,17 +945,15 @@ base $10$ otherwise. \membersection{wxString::ToULong}\label{wxstringtoulong} -\constfunc{bool}{ToULong}{\param{unsigned long}{ *val}, \param{int }{base = 0}} +\constfunc{bool}{ToULong}{\param{unsigned long}{ *val}, \param{int }{base = $0$}} Attempts to convert the string to a ansigned integer in base {\it base}. Returns {\tt TRUE} on success in which case the number is stored in the location pointed to by {\it val} or {\tt FALSE} if the string does not represent a valid number in the given base. -The default value of {\it base} $0$ is special and means that the usual rules -of {\tt C} numbers are applied: if the number starts with {\tt 0x} it is -considered to be in base $16$, if it starts with {\tt 0} - in base $8$ and in -base $10$ otherwise. +See \helpref{wxString::ToLong}{wxstringtolong} for the more detailed +description of the {\it base} parameter. \wxheading{See also}