Javascript – Leading zero to a number converting the number to some different number. not getting why this happening?

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If there is a leading 0, it is converting it to octal (base 8) as long as its a valid number in base 8 (no numbers greater than 7).

For example:

017 in base 8 is 1 * 8 + 7 = 15
037 in base 8 is 3 * 8 + 7 = 31

018 is converted to 18 because 018 isn’t a valid number in base 8

Note that the behavior as to which base the number is converted to by default can be browser-specific, so its important to always specify the base/radix when using parseInt:

parseInt("017",10) === 17

UPDATE based on comments:

parseInt expects a string as the first argument, so

parseInt("012",10) === 12

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