convert each character of an array to int

I have a char array like this '10000111101010110101' and I want to convert each 0 and 1 to int and obtain [1 0 0 0 0 1 1 ...]. I'd like to do it without fors, is it possible?

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Easy peasy

x = '10000111101010110101';
y = x - '0'

[drummer]

how does this work?

[Ameer Hamza]

If you look at the ASCII code for the character, you can see what is happening.

For example,

x = '10000111101010110101';
y = x + 0

Result

>> y
y =
  Columns 1 through 17
    49    48    48    48    48    49    49    49    49    48    49    48    49    48    49    49    48
  Columns 18 through 20
    49    48    49

So, if you subtract the ascii code for '0', you will get actual numbers.