4 char's from one int. . .

[k2712]

Say I have an unsigned int x = 0x4F726E67, and I want to print the character values of that int( 0x4F, 0x72, 0x6E, 0x67 ) becomes ( 'O', 'r', 'n', 'g' ) either to stdout or to a file. There must be an easy way of doing this but it has eluded me. Any hints would be appreciated.

Example of an attempt using strtol:

	for( i=0; i<length/4; i++ ) {
		fread( &c, 4, 1, in );
		
	       	c = c ^ 0x54694772;
		printf("c = &#37;d = 0x%x\n", c, c );
		unsigned int foo = strtol( c, NULL, 2 );
	fwrite( &foo, 1, 1, out );
	}
		
	
	fclose( in );	// Closes input file
	fclose( out );	// Closes output file
	return 0;
}

[Dave_Sinkula]

One possible method:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>

int main(void)
{
   unsigned int value = 0x4F726E67;
   size_t i = sizeof value - 1;
   do {
      putchar(value >> CHAR_BIT * i);
   } while ( i-- > 0);
   return 0;
}

/* my output
Orng
*/

[k2712]

Thank you Dave, that works perfectly.