Re: Can this code go faster?

From:	Jason Barnett	Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:26:10 +0000
Subject:	Re: Can this code go faster?
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René Fournier wrote:

I've looked in the docs and don't see anything for this per se... I need to convert a binary number of arbitrary length to a signed integer. This is how I'm doing it now: CODE -------- function bin2int ($bin) {
    if (substr($bin,0,1) == 1) {
        $val = 0 - bindec(substr($bin,1));    // NEGATIVE
        } else {
        $val = bindec(substr($bin,1));    // POSITIVE
        }
    }
echo bin2int("00001101").'<br />'; echo bin2int("10001101");

http://php.net/manual/en/function.bindec.php