Binary Number directly from Arduino I/O pins?

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Hey guys, I know there has got to be a way to do this, but I can't seem to find it at the Arduino reference page and I don't seem to be using the correct google terms.

I have a 4-bit parallel output from a chip going to 4 digital input pins on an arduino. The chip I am using is putting out a nibble of 4 bits representing a number in binary form. I need the arduino to read the state of these 4 pins and give me a number. I have done this via Picaxe in the past, but I can't seem to find the same thing in Arduino.

There has got to be an easy way of doing this without a lot of bit shifting and or simply assigning values to each input pin and adding them.

Anyone?

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Awesome

Var = PINB is what I needed my friend, thank you. I’ll take all 8 bits, no worries, if all I have to do is shove 'em over or “and” them once, I think I can handle that. 

Groovy groovy.