Accept binary integer and print does not work. Rest all works

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Hi Johan,

I think you are posting too late at night or one :beer: is too many. :wink: Also, I wasn’t careful enough with my writing. (I’ve not been at 100% for writing for the past few days.) Sorry about that!

When you give a “base” of 0 to ParseInt(), it is a special case. Then it can decode hex, octal, or decimal numbers, depending on the prefix: 0x for hex, 0 for octal, and none for decimal. (In other words, just like in C/C++/Go and other popular programming languages.

strconv.ParseInt("0x30", 0, 64)    // "0x30"    (hex) ->  48 (decimal)
strconv.ParseInt("0377",0,64)      // "0377"  (octal) -> 255 (decimal)
strconv.ParseInt("137",0,64)       // "137" (decimal) -> 137 (decimal)

and to decode a string of 1s and 0s, you would have to recognize that the string represents a number in binary (base 2), then call

strconv.ParseInt("00100",2,64)     // "100" (binary) -> 4 (decimal)
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