Math Forum / Math Software / Scilab / February 2010

I am trying to print some numbers in octal format, which I should be
able to do by using msprintf. At least that´s what the help entry for
printf_conversion says.

But unfortunately, when I try this, I get told, that the '%o' format
string is not allowed for that method:

msprintf('%o',8)
                !--error 998
msprintf: ein Fehler ist aufgetreten: 'o' Format nicht erlaubt.

Is there another option to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Piet