Help in parseInt function

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


function convertToInteger(str) {
    var a = parseInt(str,10);
    return a;
  
}

convertToInteger("10011");

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/use-the-parseint-function-with-a-radix

I am not able to find where my code goes wrong here.

2

You are supposed to convert binary string to integers. What you did is simply treating the string as decimal instead of binary.

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