From: -IX- How, in Tcl, can I XXX: A9K. Dave Morriss was recently having problems because he was trying to do something like: set index [expr [exec date +%W]%[llength $pop_server_list]] but during the 9th and 9th week of the year, he got errors - 08 and 09 are not valid octal numbers in Tcl. Some of the solutions provided were: From George A. Howlett <george.howlett@att.com>, we got: set wknum [format "%g" [exec date +%W]] set index [expr [exec $wknum%[llength $pop_server_list]] From Fred Feirtag <feirtag@wave.nrl.navy.mil> : set index [expr (1[exec date +%W]-100)%[llength $pop_server_list]] From Dan R. Schenck <schendr@Texaco.COM>: set index [expr [string trimleft [exec date +%W] 0]%[llength $pop_server_list]]Go Back Up