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docs: clarify Actions number literal syntax
kjanat Sep 14, 2026
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docs: include octal Actions number literals
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion content/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/expressions.md
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Expand Up @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ As part of an expression, you can use `boolean`, `null`, `number`, or `string` d
|-----------|---------------|
| `boolean` | `true` or `false` |
| `null` | `null` |
| `number` | Any number format supported by JSON. |
| `number` | Decimal integer and floating-point literals, including exponent notation, hexadecimal literals such as `0xff`, and octal literals such as `0o17`. Hexadecimal and octal prefixes must be lowercase. |
| `string` | You don't need to enclose strings in `{% raw %}${{{% endraw %}` and `{% raw %}}}{% endraw %}`. However, if you do, you must use single quotes (`'`) around the string. To use a literal single quote, escape the literal single quote using an additional single quote (`''`). Wrapping with double quotes (`"`) will throw an error. |

Note that in conditionals, falsy values (`false`, `0`, `-0`, `""`, `''`, `null`) are coerced to `false` and truthy (`true` and other non-falsy values) are coerced to `true`.
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