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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right?
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It's the API's job to validate it either way. As it does that job, it may as well parse the string as an integer.
Or even funnier: It gets parsed in octal, which does yield a valid zip code. Good luck finding that.
Who tf decided that a 0 prefix means base 8 in the first place? If a time machine was invented somehow I'm going to cap that man, after the guy that created JavaScript.
Should be like
0o777
to mimic hex0xFF