Thread: help on loop

Originally Posted by StormRoBoT

can i do this in division and remainder operators to separate the number into its individual digits?

There was a recent post about palindromes. There, the guy (or gal) used the / and % to seperate the digits. In other words he had an array of int to work with. There we proposed again a working solution, but you will see (if you search with palindrome as a key word) that it is much more difficult. Stringwise is much better.
If strrev() is the problem and doesn't work, write it your own or google it and copy it. Stick with what you have

Code:

/*
**  STRREV.C - reverse a string in place
**
**  public domain by Bob Stout
*/

#include <string.h>

char *strrev(char *str)
{
      char *p1, *p2;

      if (! str || ! *str)
            return str;
      for (p1 = str, p2 = str + strlen(str) - 1; p2 > p1; ++p1, --p2)
      {
            *p1 ^= *p2;
            *p2 ^= *p1;
            *p1 ^= *p2;
      }
      return str;
}

Are you calling me unclever? Besides, Bob Stout (whoever that is) wrote this code, not me. I just copied and pasted the first google result. With all the profiling and crap the compiler does these days you are probably right. Next time I will copy and paste the second google result

wah.. this realy complicated..

but i still cant fint the way to make it like this..

Code:

Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): 18181
18181 is a palindrome

Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): 12345
12345 is not a palindrome

Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): -1

> So the winner is MS, with my function about 20% faster than the XOR method. Under some circumstances, a 20% speed up is definitely a good thing!

Well that goes to show you that google results are not always in the order of "most optimal" or "fastest performance." I will google it again and give that Bob Stout guy a stern talking to. Its times like these that I am glad I always give due credit within comments so that any complaints can go to the author of the code... That and its unethical to claim another's work as your own. But in honestly, its mostly to fan the flames in the proper direction.

Hmmm this has some limitations... but what if you did this:

Example:

Code:

static const int primes[] = {02,03,05,07,013,015,021,023,027}; // yep.. I used octals... I am bored

long unsigned long key_fstring(const char *s)
{
  long unsigned long  r = 0;

  if(s)
    for(r = 1;*s;++s)
      r *= primes[*s - '0'];

  return r;
}

long unsigned long key_rstring(const char *s)
{
  long unsigned long  r = 0;
  const char *begin = s;

  if(s)
    for(r = 1, s += strlen(s) - 1;s >= begin;--s)
      r *= primes[*s - '0'];

  return r;
}

int main(void)
{
  char buffer[256], *p, *end;
  int x;

  do
  {
    puts("Please input a number:");
    fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin);
    strtok(buffer, "\n");

    x = strtol(buffer, &end, 10);
    if(end != buffer)
    {
       x = +x;
       snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%d", x);

       /* All that has been done up to this point is the gathering of the user input, less user idiocy */
       printf("%d is%sa palindrome.\n", x, (key_fstring(buffer) == key_rstring(buffer))?" "," not ");
    }
  } while(*buffer);

  return 0;
}

Originally Posted by StormRoBoT

wah.. this realy complicated..

but i still cant fint the way to make it like this..

Code:

Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): 18181
18181 is a palindrome

Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): 12345
12345 is not a palindrome

Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): -1

I fail to see why. You where more or less provided with every necessary code you needed to finish and correct your code. You had like 90% of the code done yourself in the first place. Post what you don't understand from the code(s) provided
EDIT: necessary code needed....sigh

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>

void main()
{
int a , b;
int n;

printf("Enter a five-digit number ( -1 to end ): \n");
scanf("%d",&n);
a = n;
b=0;

while(a>0)
{
b *= 10;
b += a%10;
a /= 10;
}

if(b == n)
{
printf("%d is a palindrome\n" , n);
}
else
{
printf("%d is not a palindrome\n" , n);
}

}

this is some other code, but still i need help on looping, where should i put my while?

i need to put something like

Code:

 while (n!=-1)

but i dont know where to put it

Have you made any effort to figure this looping out on your own? It's really not hard, if you actually think about it, and don't expect it to be spoon-fed to you. I have twice linked you to the lesson on loops here at cprogramming.com, and I suspect you haven't even looked at it.

Originally Posted by StormRoBoT

i need to put something like

Code:

 while (n!=-1)

but i dont know where to put it

Oh, here's an idea...EXPERIMENT!!!!

Final post.

Code:

while(n!= 1) {
//do something
}

This means that the code inside the brackets ({, }) will be executed repeatedly while n is not equal to -1. Thus it will only stop when n is equal to -1.
So put inside the brackets the code you want to be executed repeatedly.
Over and out