Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitLeadingZeros(3pm)
                                           User Contributed Perl Documentation


NAME
       Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitLeadingZeros -
       Write "oct(755)" instead of "0755".

AFFILIATION
       This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION
       Perl interprets numbers with leading zeros as octal.  If that's what
       you really want, its better to use "oct" and make it obvious.

           $var = 041;     # not ok, actually 33
           $var = oct(41); # ok

           chmod 0644, $file;                              # ok by default
           dbmopen %database, 'foo.db', 0600;              # ok by default
           mkdir $directory, 0755;                         # ok by default
           sysopen $filehandle, $filename, O_RDWR, 0666;   # ok by default
           umask 0002;                                     # ok by default

           use POSIX 'mkfifo';
           mkfifo $fifo, 0600;                             # ok by default
           POSIX::mkfifo $fifo, 0600;                      # ok by default

CONFIGURATION
       If you want to ban all leading zeros, set "strict" to a true value in a
       .perlcriticrc file.

           [ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitLeadingZeros]
           strict = 1

AUTHOR
       Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2005-2023 Imaginative Software Systems.  All rights
       reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license can
       be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-26
         Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitLeadingZeros(3pm)