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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-09 14:09:00 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-09 14:09:00 +0000
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 2002/04/07 18:46:13 $)
+perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.21 $, $Date: 2002/05/06 13:08:46 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ functions is that it works with numbers of ANY size, that it is
optimized for speed on some operations, and for at least some
programmers the notation might be familiar.
-=item B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>
+=item B<How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal:>
Using perl's built in conversion of 0x notation:
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ Using Bit::Vector
=item B<How do I convert from binary to decimal:>
+Perl 5.6 lets you write binary numbers directly with
+the 0b notation:
+
+ $number = 0b10110110;
+
Using pack and ord
$decimal = ord(pack('B8', '10110110'));