parseInt() — Description

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). The parseInt function converts its first argument to a string, parses that string, then returns an integer or NaN. If not NaN, the return value will be the integer that is the first argument taken as a number in the specified radix. (For example, a radix of 10 converts from a decimal number, 8 converts from octal, 16 from hexadecimal, and so on.) The radix argument is converted to a number. If it's unprovided, or if the value becomes 0, NaN or Infinity (undefined is coerced to NaN), JavaScript assumes the following If the input string, with leading whitespace and possible +/- signs removed, begins with 0x or 0X (a zero, followed by lowercase or uppercase X), radix is assumed to be 16 and the rest of the string is parsed as a hexadecimal number. If the input string begins with any other value, the radix is 10 (decimal). > [!NOTE] > Other prefixes like 0b, which are valid in number lit Attribution: Adapted from MDN Web Docs under CC-BY-SA-2.5. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.