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Re: Programming Fail

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  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:24:10 -0500 (EST)
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On 11/19/13 at 2:58 AM, akrasnov at cory.eecs.berkeley.edu (Alex
Krasnov) wrote:

>Your solution is similar to my second one but fails given leading
>zeros:

>In:    ToExpression[Characters["0123"]] Out:   {0, 1, 2, 3}

>In:    IntegerDigits[ToExpression["0123"]] Out:    {1, 2, 3}

>You can provide a length argument if known:
>
>In:    IntegerDigits[ToExpression["0123"], 10, 4] Out: {0, 1, 2,
>3}

You can avoid the issue with a leading zero without knowing the
number of digits you need by first changing the string to a list
of characters, i.e.,

ToExpression@Characters["0123"]

will return the 4 integers {0,1,2,3}




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