Thank you guys :) I feel a little less dumb :) (even if it's not really natural for me to have this behaviour on string but ^^) Ben On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:33 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Euh, sure this works:
(Number readFrom: 'FF' base: 16) printStringBase: 2
Number class>>#readFrom:base: Integer class>>#readFrom:base:
On 15 Feb 2013, at 00:26, "Torsten Bergmann" <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Sven wrote:
So something like this should work:
(Integer readFrom: 'FF' base: 16) printStringBase: 2
Integer readFrom: 'FF' will not work since #readFrom: expects a string in decimal representation and 'FF' is hexadecimal. It also wont work for large numbers due to sending it to "Integer".
Just use
(Number readFrom: '16rFF') printStringBase: 2
which works for large numbers
(Number readFrom: '16rFFFFFFFFF') printStringBase: 2
Bye Torsten