217102 - javascript:parseInt() returns 0 for string "08" and string "09" only

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Levent Guendogdu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701

javascript:parseInt()  returns 0 for string "08" and string "09" only

The sample code below makes the alert message pop up every time. I can reproduce
with string values of "08" and "09". But not with other values. This is a
hardcore bug! I need to find a way to workaround this. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
// JavaScript sanity check:
var stringValue = "08";
var intValue = parseInt(stringValue);
if (intValue != 8)
    alert("WHY THE HELL IS THIS RETURNING " + intValue + "?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!");
Actual Results:  
intValue is 0 and should be 8.


Expected Results:  
it should have returned 8.

For the most funny thing: this also happens with I.E. 6.0 on W2K.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/toplev.html#1064173

"If the radix is not specified or is specified as 0, JavaScript assumes the
following:

    * If the input string begins with "0x", the radix is 16 (hexadecimal).

    * If the input string begins with "0", the radix is eight (octal).

    * If the input string begins with any other value, the radix is 10 (decimal)."

Change to:

var intValue = parseInt(stringValue,10);

and it'll work.

Invalid.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

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