Re: Converting a String of bits into a binary number in perl?

["David Nicol" <suppressed>]

>  $a="100";  I want to convert this into perl's interpretation of
> binary no ie $a=0b100

# perl -wple 's/\b([01]+)\b/"0b$1"/gee'
100
4
10111101010101
12117
the powers of 2 are 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000
the powers of 2 are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32


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