POSIX File Mode Parser
Parse a three- or four-digit octal POSIX file mode into permission bits and an rwx string. The leading digit holds setuid, setgid and sticky bits.
Description
Parse a three- or four-digit octal POSIX file mode into permission bits and an rwx string. The leading digit holds setuid, setgid and sticky bits.
POSIX File Mode Parser: Parse a three- or four-digit octal POSIX file mode into permission bits and an rwx string. The leading digit holds setuid, setgid and sticky bits.
When to use POSIX File Mode Parser
Use this parser to convert a string in the named grammar into a structured value while making accepted syntax and failures explicit.
- octal
- Required string input.
How POSIX File Mode Parser works
Parse a three- or four-digit octal POSIX file mode into permission bits and an rwx string. The leading digit holds setuid, setgid and sticky bits. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- decimal
- The resulting decimal returned as an integer.
- permissions
- The resulting permissions returned as a string.
Limitations and assumptions
- Parsing rules depend on locale, radix, encoding, escaping, duplicate fields, whitespace, overflow, rounding, time zone, units, and ambiguity policy. Successful parsing does not validate business meaning or make untrusted input safe.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Reject trailing or ambiguous content, preserve the original input, schema-validate the parsed value, and test malformed, boundary, and adversarial cases.
References
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Parsing — Wikipedia contributors
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