Thread: Integers trouble

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    Integers trouble

    Hi everyone,

    I'm writing a fairly simple application. Below is the part of the code that is giving me troubles. The headers I have are:
    <stdio.h><stdlib.h><math.h>

    This is just one function of few. It is supposed to ask the user for an integer, check that it's an integer and return the value to the main function. However, whenever I enter an integer during runtime, it somehow gets a crazy value (ie. I enter 15, it gets 238 or something).

    Code:
    int read_int(void){
       int number=0;
       char c='';
       do{
    	c=getc(stdin);
    	if ((c!='1')&&(c!='2')&&(c!='3')&&(c!='4')&&(c!='5')&&(c!='6')&&(c!='7')&&(c!='8')&&(c!='9')&&(c!='0')&&(c!='\n')){
    	printf("Invalid input.\n");
    	exit(1);
    	}
    
    	if (c!='\n'){
    		number=number*10+atoi(&c);
    	}
       
       }while(c!='\n');
      
      return number;
    I'm not sure what's wrong with it... It has worked before at the university with a different compiler, but I don't know how that would make a difference. I'm using the same idea for another function and it works there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Only 238? You should call yourself lucky. atoi takes a string as input, and you don't have one. If you want to convert a single character to a number, you need to use
    Code:
    c-'0'

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    Wow, that was quick. Thanks so much!

    Is there a reason why it works with single characters in other cases though?

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    Sheer blind luck. It should never work with a single character.

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