$a="100"; I want to convert this into perl's interpretation of binary no ie $a=0b100
# perl -wple 's/\b([01]+)\b/"0b$1"/gee' 100 4 10111101010101 12117 the powers of 2 are 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 the powers of 2 are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 -- "Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity." -- Marshall McLuhan
