bin2dec

Convert text representation of binary number to decimal number

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Syntax

D = bin2dec(binStr)

Description

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D = bin2dec(binStr) converts binStr to a decimal number and returns it. The input argument binStr represents digits of a binary number using the characters '0' and '1'.

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Convert a character vector that represents a binary value to a decimal number.

binStr = '10111';
D = bin2dec(binStr)
D = 23

Starting in R2019b, you can write values in binary format directly without using bin2dec. Use the 0b prefix and do not use quotation marks. MATLAB® stores the value as an integer, not as text.

D = 0b10111
D = uint8
    23
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Create a string array that represents multiple binary values.

binStr = ["1111111111" "1111010" "1110"]
binStr = 1x3 string
    "1111111111"    "1111010"    "1110"

Convert the binary values and return a numeric array.

D = bin2dec(binStr)
D = 1×3

        1023         122          14

Starting in R2019b, it is recommended that you create a numeric array using binary literals instead of converting text with bin2dec.

D = [0b1111111111 0b1111010 0b1110]
D = 1x3 uint16 row vector

   1023    122     14

Input Arguments

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Text representing binary numbers, specified as a character array, cell array of character vectors, or string array.

  • If binStr is a character array with multiple rows or a cell array of character vectors, then the output is a numeric column vector.

  • If binStr is a string array, then the output is a numeric array that has the same dimensions.

A binary number represented by binStr can have no more than 53 digits.

Starting in R2020a, binStr can be text that includes the same prefixes (0b or 0B) and suffixes used by binary literals. For example, these calls to bin2dec each return the number 7.

bin2dec('111')
bin2dec('0b111')
bin2dec('0b111s32')

Also, in R2020a binStr can represent the two's complement of a negative number, using a suffix that specifies a signed integer type. For example, bin2dec('0b11111111s8') returns -1, because the s8 suffix specifies the 8-bit signed integer type. In previous releases, binStr cannot represent a negative number.

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