Converts number to a string of octal digits at least width characters wide or wider if necessary. If number is floating-point or fixed-point, it is rounded to a 64-bit integer before conversion.

The connector pane displays the default data types for this polymorphic function.


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Inputs/Outputs

  • ci32.png number —

    number can be a scalar number, array or cluster of numbers, array of clusters of numbers, and so on.

  • ci16.png width (-) —

    width must be numeric. If unwired, the function uses exactly as many digits as are needed to represent the number, with no extra padding.

  • istr.png octal integer string —

    octal integer string is the resulting octal string. The following table shows how the values of number and width affect octal integer string.

    numberwidthoctal integer stringComments
    340003—
    423052—
    –4.2337777777774–4.2 is rounded up to –4 in 64-bit integer format. width is too small to represent the octal version of a negative number, so the field width is extended.