JavaScript - Preventing octal conversion

Question

I\'m taking a numerical input as an argument and was just trying to account for leading zeroes. But it seems javascript converts the number into octal before I can do anythi

Answer 1

If you type numbers by hand to script then not use leading zeros (which implicity treat number as octal if it is valid octal - if not then treat it as decimal). If you have number as string then just use + operator to cast to (decimal) number.

console.log(+"017")

if (021 < 019) console.log('Paradox');

The strict mode will not allow to use zero prefix

'use strict'

if (021 < 019) console.log('Paradox');