Converting string of 1s and 0s into binary value

Question

I\'m trying to convert an incoming sting of 1s and 0s from stdin into their respective binary values (where a string such as \"11110111\" would be converted to 0xF7). This s

Answer 1

You can use Boost Dynamic Bitset:

boost::dynamic_bitset<>  x(std::string("01011"));
std::cout << x << ":" << x.to_ulong() << std::endl;