Method: String#oct

Defined in:
string.c

#oct ⇒ Integer

Treats leading characters of str as a string of octal digits (with an optional sign) and returns the corresponding number. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

"123".oct       #=> 83
"-377".oct      #=> -255
"bad".oct       #=> 0
"0377bad".oct   #=> 255

Returns:



4460
4461
4462
 
# File 'string.c', line 4460

static VALUE
rb_str_oct(str)
VALUE str;