From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-02-12T09:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby one liner killed my script

John Maclean wrote:
> I'm wondering
> how I can convert a user's input into a fixnum?
>
>   def put_bin_string
> # this is the line in which I originally tried to convert 
> # the user's binary digit to denary:
>
>puts "your bin #{@ustring.to_i} =
> 0b#{@ustring.to_i}" end
> end
> 

Does this help:

input = "10000001"
puts input.to_i(base=2)

--output:--
129
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