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How to present a number in octal in MQL ?

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   //--- octal  %o 
   int b=017; // octal:21    actual it is decimal
   printf("b=octal:%o,b=%d",b,b); //b=octal:21,b=17
Hello please see: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/common/printformat
Documentation on MQL5: Common Functions / PrintFormat
Documentation on MQL5: Common Functions / PrintFormat
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The number, order and type of parameters must exactly match the set of qualifiers, otherwise the print result is undefined. Instead of PrintFormat() you can use If the format string is followed by parameters, this string must contain format specifications that denote output format of these parameters. Specification of format always starts with...
Marco vd Heijden:
Hello please see: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/common/printformat

Thanks. 

What I need is the presentation of number in octal  instead of output value in octal.

int x = 10;// in decimal

int y = 0x10;// in hex

int z = 010;// it is octal in C++ and it is equal 8 ,but it is not octal in MQL,it is still decimal in MQL

printf("%o",z)  --- //this is output by octal.
greentreen: What I need is the presentation of number in octal  instead of output value in octal.
  1. The only mention of octal in the documentation is PrintFormat. So no 010.
  2. Does anyone use it any more? You know what octal is, convert it to hex and use that.
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I hope you will not created a topic on each difference between C++ and MQL languages.
Alain Verleyen:
I hope you will not created a topic on each difference between C++ and MQL languages.

I just wished they were the same.

Marco vd Heijden:

I just wished they were the same.

They are far from the same.
Alain Verleyen:
They are far from the same.

Yes but they seem to be getting closer.

Maybe i wished it was more like Python.

I mean a more modern language as it is hard to work with larger numbers on the older ones.

I want to do it in C++ , because it's fast.

vs.

I want to do it in Python, because it's easy.

Usually i end up doing it in C++ as well as in Python and i will even port it partially to Javascript.

But Python always wins even though its a magnitude of 40x slower than C since it's an interpreter language.

Alain Verleyen: I hope you will not created a topic on each difference between C++ and MQL languages.
Already exists.
          how similar is C++ verses MQL5? - MetaTrader 4 - General - MQL5 programming forum
whroeder1:
Already exists.
          how similar is C++ verses MQL5? - MetaTrader 4 - General - MQL5 programming forum

Thank you.

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