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Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Data Type Conversion

• String to Numeric

• Numeric to String

• Other Conversions

• Operators and Special Characters

• Bit-Wise Operations

• Logical Operations

• Relational Operations

• Set Operations

• Date and Time Operations

• Programming in MATLAB

• Object-Oriented Programming

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Release Notes

base2dec - Convert base N number string to decimal number

Syntax

d = base2dec('strn', base)

Description

d = base2dec('strn', base) converts the string number strn of the specified base into its decimal (base 10) equivalent. base must be an integer between 2 and 36. If 'strn' is a character array, each row is interpreted as a string in the specified base.

Examples

The expression base2dec('212',3) converts 212₃ to decimal, returning 23.

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