Hi thevoid,

If you read the documentation, you'll see that oct is capable of conversion from binary.  It just requires putting a leading '0b' in front of the number.

For example: 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $value = "0b101010";
printf "$value is %d decimal\n", oct($value);

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Not too long ago, I even wrote a submission about it, in which I admitted that I didn't know about this additional functionality of oct until much later in my Perl education.

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