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Numbers with Leading Zeroes in Actionscript
Actionscript has an undocumented (at least as far as I can tell) “feature” that causes numbers beginning with the character “0” and consisting of digits all less than 8 to be treated as octals (base-8 numbers). This is actually consistent with javascript’s function, so I guess it wouldn’t be completely undocumented.
The solution is to use parseInt(num, 10), which converts it to a base-10 number. Seems odd that it would default to this behavior without escaping.
Here’s an example of it in action:
08/03/04 04:40PM Flash Geekiness
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