On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:25:26PM -0500, Greg London wrote: > Is there a binary equivalent to the "hex" function? > > I have a string that represents a binary value, > and I want to convert it to an integer value > and do some math with it. > > if it were a hex string, I'd "hex" it. > what if its a binary string?
In perl5.6.0 or later, you can use oct() to convert a binary string that
starts with 0b, e.g. oct('0b11') == 3.
Ronald
