Re: octal error

notahipee wrote:

> What I was trying to do looks like this:
> #include <iostream>
> #include <ostream>
> int main()
> {
>   int a;
> 
>      cout << "enter a number " << endl;
>      cin >> a;
>  switch (a)
> {
> case 00: cout << zero;
> case 01: cout << zero one;
> etc.
> }
> Since a leading zero changes the number to octal it crashes at 08 and
> 09.

The simple answer is, "don't do that".

Why are you putting the leading zero in the case labels? What do you
think this achieves?



Brian