How to represent an octal value as its string representation

Question

I m looking for a way to display an octal value as its string representation.

IE,

stringified(0755)==='0755'

Where stringified is an hypothetic function doing the desired job.

My attempts to play with parseInt(octal, <base>) were not successful, i definitely miss something.

thanks!

Answer 1

The toString method for numbers has a radix parameter.

0755.toString(8)

Will return:

"755"

You can add the zero manually. For an example stringified function:

function stringified( number ) {
    return "0" + number.toString(8);
}