Re: Programming Fail
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- 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}