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I have got a String filled up with 0 and 1 and would like to get an Integer out of it:

String bitString = ""; 
int Number;
int tmp;

bitString = "";
  for (i=1;i<=10;i++)
  {
    tmp= analogRead (A0);
    bitString +=  tmp % 2;
    delay(50);
  }
// now bitString contains for example "10100110" 
// Number = bitstring to int <-------------
// In the end I want that the variable Number contains the integer 166
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  • What is the question? What do you expect this code to do and what is it doing? What else have you tried? Commented May 12, 2014 at 18:42
  • @Craig I eddited the question. For example If the bitString contains a "10100110" I want the programm to save it as the decimal 166 in the int variable. Commented May 12, 2014 at 18:46
  • Do you need the string? You could create the integer representation directly. Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:14
  • @Craig i would also like to print out the bitstring Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:15

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If you only need the string for printing you can store value in an integer and then use the Serial.print(number,BIN) function to format the output as a binary value. Appending integers to strings is a potentially costly operation both in performance and memory usage.

int Number = 0;
int tmp;

for (int i=9;i>=0;i--) {
  tmp = analogRead (A0);
  Number += (tmp % 2) << i;
  delay(50);
}
Serial.print(Number, BIN);
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  • Yes your solution looks more efficient! and does the work Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:36
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Check out strtoul()

It should work something like this:

unsigned long result = strtoul(bitstring.c_str(), NULL, 2);

Now you have a long variable which can be converted into an int if needed.

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  • @kimliv Did you add .c_str() to the end of bitstring as Peter pointed out above? c_str() should return a const char*. Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:22
  • it is working that way! Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:25

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