Parameters??

[programmerc]

hi everyone can you help me how can i upgrade my program I want to input a octal and binary number and convert them in base 2, 8, 10, 16..

how can I write the scanf with the right parameter in it??

scanf ("%x",&i);

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>


int main()
{
  int i;
  char buffer [33];
  printf ("Enter a number(in hexadecimal): ");
  scanf ("%x",&i);
  
  itoa (i,buffer,10);
  printf ("Decimal: %s\n",buffer);
  itoa (i,buffer,8);
  printf ("Octal: %s\n",buffer);
  itoa (i,buffer,2);
  printf ("Binary: %s\n",buffer);
  return 0;
}

[sonjared]

If the input could be using any radix, you have little choice but to use string input for the number, which would then be converted to the correct representation.

[programmerc]

I'm sorry I don't understand you..

[sonjared]

Do you want the user to type either binary or octal and have the program figure out which it is?

[programmerc]

No, there is a separate input for octal and binary..

[sonjared]

No, there is a separate input for octal and binary..

Then you will have two different paths of execution. One can call scanf to read an octal value since that is built into scanf, and the other must use string input because there is no native support for binary I/O in C. What this means is that you must manually read the binary value as a string, validate that it is legal, and then convert it to other representations. I would suggest converting to decimal first, then all of the other bases are trivial:

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "util.h"

int valid_binary(const char *num, const size_t bits);
int binary_to_int(const char *num);

int main(void)
    {
    int retcode = EXIT_SUCCESS;
    char *bin;

    fputs("binary value> ", stdout);
    fflush(stdout);

    errno = 0;

    if ((bin = dgetline(stdin)) == NULL || errno == ENOMEM)
        {
        fputs("missing or invalid input\n", stderr);
        retcode = EXIT_FAILURE;
        }
    else
        {
        /* Ensure the value is binary and in the range of int */
        if (!valid_binary(bin, CHAR_BIT * sizeof(int)))
            {
            fputs("not a valid binary value\n", stderr);
            retcode = EXIT_FAILURE;
            }
        else
            {
            int x = binary_to_int(bin);

            /* At this point x can easily be converted to other bases */
            printf("'%s' in binary is %d in decimal\n", bin, x);
            }
        }

    free(bin);

    return retcode;
    }