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[jira] [Commented] (LANG-1060) NumberUtils.isNumber assumes number starting with Zero is octal

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1060?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14198506#comment-14198506 ] 

James Haugen commented on LANG-1060:
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In the financial industry, there are many instances of numbers that have multiple leading zeros, i.e. account ids and ssns

> NumberUtils.isNumber assumes number starting with Zero is octal
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-1060
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1060
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: lang.math.*
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.2
>            Reporter: James Haugen
>             Fix For: 3.x
>
>
> The isNumber method assumes, that if the String being passed in doesn't have an 'X' at the second char it is an octal number.



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