oct ostring
Interprets ostring as an octal string and returns the
equivalent decimal value.
(If ostring happens to start off with 0x,
it is interpreted as a hex
string instead.) The following will handle decimal, octal, and hex in
the standard notation:
If ostring is omitted, the function interprets$val = oct $val if $val =~ /^0/;
$_.
To perform the inverse function on octal numbers,
use:
$oct_string = sprintf "%lo", $number;