Cheers Greg, it would never have occured to me that there might be more to
parseInt than meets the eye.

(and Elliot thought my solution was simple!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hill [mailto:ghill@s...]
Sent: 21 November 2001 19:31
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] Re: binary to decimal


Try:

function bin2dec(bin){
       return(parseInt(bin, 2));
}

Then just get rid of your bin2dec function entirely and call parseInt 
directly instead.

--Greg

>Yeah, you'd be surprised at how easy some programming tasks are with 
>a little bit of planning.
>
>---------------------
>Kev
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>haha - well this does the job!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: O'Hara, Elliott M [mailto:EMOHARA@k...]
>Sent: 21 November 2001 13:15
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] Re: binary to decimal
>
>
>NOOOO...
>Its supposed to be MUCH MUCH harder than that!!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: alex.shiell@s... [mailto:alex.shiell@s...]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:14 AM
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] Re: binary to decimal
>
>
>Elliot, and anyone else who's interested...
>
>In the absence of any info on an existing function, I've wriiten my own:
>
>function bin2dec(bin){
>	s=bin.toString();
>	var iResult=0;
>	for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){
>	iResult+=(parseInt(s.charAt(i))*Math.pow(2,(s.length-i-1)));
>	}
>	return(iResult);
>}
>
>
>
>>  How do you convert a binary number to decimal in javascript?
>>
>>  And indeed how dou you specify that a number is binary and not decimal?
>>  (e.g. 1111011 is not to be treated as 1,111,011)
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