Re: perlfaq4 - tweaks for "How do I convert between numeric representations"

[email protected] (Iain Truskett)
Newsgroups perl.perlfaq.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Philip Newton ([email protected]) [25 Aug 2003 02:01]:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:33:10 +1000, [email protected] (Iain Truskett)
> wrote:

> > Attached are some diffs that accomplish the following things for
> > the radix conversion.
> [snip]
> > 5. Mention ord's ability to convert binary numbers.

> Um, ord's ability to convert binary numbers?

Bugger!

> I presume you were thinking about oct()?

Yes, I was. Thank you noting that.

Attached patch fixes for current cvs.


cheers,
-- 
Iain.
radix2.patch (text/plain, 935 B)
Index: perlfaq4.pod
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq4.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -U10 -r1.46 perlfaq4.pod
--- perlfaq4.pod	24 Aug 2003 05:35:31 -0000	1.46
+++ perlfaq4.pod	25 Aug 2003 03:29:22 -0000
@@ -190,24 +190,24 @@
     $vec = Bit::Vector->new_Dec(32, -559038737);
     $oct = reverse join('', $vec->Chunk_List_Read(3));
 
 =item How do I convert from binary to decimal
 
 Perl 5.6 lets you write binary numbers directly with
 the 0b notation:
 
     $number = 0b10110110;
 
-Using ord:
+Using oct:
 
     my $input = "10110110";
-    $decimal = ord( "0b$input" );
+    $decimal = oct( "0b$input" );
 
 Using pack and ord:
 
     $decimal = ord(pack('B8', '10110110'));
 
 Using pack and unpack for larger strings:
 
     $int = unpack("N", pack("B32",
 	substr("0" x 32 . "11110101011011011111011101111", -32)));
     $dec = sprintf("%d", $int);
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