On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM Guillermo Martínez Jiménez via
fpc-pascal wrote:
>
> A few weeks ago I was looking on the Internet if there's a simpler way
> to convert a binary string (i.e. '00100101') to integer than using a
> loop and parsing it by hand. On Reddit I found an answer that suggests
> to use sysutils.StrToInt preceding the string with character '%'.
>
> I know binary and octal strings aren't used often today but I think that
> the documentation should be updated.
The documentaion about val
(https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/val.html) clearly
says it handles binary, hexadecimal and octal input.
and so does the docs about StToInt
(https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/strtoint.html).
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Bart
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