Conversion string to arrays

[KoG Metalgod]

My programming partner and I have been working on a cool project dealing with binary/hex and it is working great. Everything is just about done and the mathematical side is finished moving into the second phase of user input we have run into some issues. Our ultimate goal is to open files read there contents and then convert to binary. Well the File IO is easy enough but we have run into a sort of standstill, this occurs in the conversion. At this point in the project Will and I have is testing with stdin, assuming we get that to work we will append the code for the File IO. Will and I have developed notes for the conversion:

int main()
{
int k[SIZE];
char ch[SIZE];

fscanf(stdin,"%s",ch);
for(i=0;i<SIZE;i++){
if(isalpha(char[i])
{
k[i] = (int) (ch - 'A')+65
}

else if(isalnum(charin[i]))
{
k[i] = atoi(charin);
}             /*This is just notes from code, if there is syntax errors it does not reflect the true code. I am unable to access the source at the moment*/

Now I am sure some of you have already noticed the huge errors, I hope you will be able to solve my problem.
Error 1: Am I using the right Input function
Error 2: When a char string (1 byte element) holds an int greater then 255 it spaces it between many elements and / or it sets it to values 48-57 from ANSI
Values chart
Error 3: If the information is placed between elements or is converted to ANSI form then ATOI will ether not work correctly or will convert the number from the ANSI value

A few questions:
Should I use an int array? This will solve some issues with holding but other issues will be presented.
Is my conversion code k = (int)(ch-'A')+65 going to function correctly.

Thanks for your time!

[ssharish2005]

Well, if u wanted to read the contents of the file as binary, why dont u open the file in binary mode, and start working on binary data.

That is what u are trying to do in the above case isn;t it.

Error 1: Am I using the right Input function

Use fgets to read a string, well the above read method works, but u wont do boundary check. Its best to use fgets, so that u wont overflow the buffer when reading line.

When a char string (1 byte element) holds an int greater then 255 it spaces it between many elements and / or it sets it to values 48-57 from ANSI
Values chart

Yes, thats right, When u reach 255 and plus 1 on top of that will roll back to 0. Thats how it works.

If the information is placed between elements or is converted to ANSI form then ATOI will ether not work correctly or will convert the number from the ANSI value

Not sure what u are trying to say.

ssharish2005

[movl0x1]

char cannot "hold" an int. And a byte can't have a value greater than 255.

11111111 is 255. No more ones fit in this byte.

[zacs7]

char cannot "hold" an int. And a byte can't have a value greater than 255.

11111111 is 255. No more ones fit in this byte.

11111111 is NOT 255, it loops around, so 255+1 = 0, 255+2 = 1, etc.

[movl0x1]

I know that it loops around, but a single byte can't hold more than 1111 1111
just like an 8 oz. glass can't hold more than 8 ounces.

If you do this in C

 unsigned char = 255;

that byte will contain 1111 1111. It can't hold 256 ( 1 0000 0000 ), that would take at least 16 bits.

[zacs7]

Stop working at a bit level in your posts theres no need to. And it would take at least 9bits
or 1 & 1/8th otects

[movl0x1]

Yes, 9 bits, but in C there aren't 9 bit variables.

And there is a need to go to the bit level for what I'm doing

[zacs7]

No there isn't the OP only needs to know that a 16bit variable does not fit into 8 bits.

[KoG Metalgod]

well I allready knew that the intergers would not fit but assumed that it would convert each digit to there ANSI value.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int x;
for(x=48;x<58;x++);
                             {
                              printf("&#37;d %c",x,x);
                              } 
}

Well If I can convert my int input of lets say "1,232" to "1 2 3 2" and from there on each element convert back to 1-9 (base 10) using a simple conversion of char o ='2'; int i;
i = (int) (o-'0');. Then compare elements in the array and use atoi on certain blocks of memory. Before I got back to my work bench does anyone have objections to this method.

[dwks]

It seems to me that if you're going to all of the trouble to extract each digit, you might as well go the whole way and write your own atoi() variation.

But really, there's probably a function already in existence that does what you want. Take a look at strtol() and sscanf(), for example.

BTW, you have a stray semicolon after your for loop in the code in your last post.

Yes, 9 bits, but in C there aren't 9 bit variables.

There are, in a way.

struct { unsigned data : 9; } var;

[offtopic]

11111111 is NOT 255, it loops around, so 255+1 = 0, 255+2 = 1, etc.

Is that portable? I'm pretty sure overflow of unsigned variables is guaranteed to wrap, but what about with signed variables? What about underflow?

[movl0x1]

     char str[] = "1232";
     int i, num, tmp;
     i = num = 0;

    do {
           tmp = str[i++] - 0x30;
           num = tmp + (num * 10);
    } while (str[i] != '\0');

    /* int num now holds 1232 */

Is that similar to what your attempting to do?
Or am I way off base?

[vart]

do not use magic numbers in your code