Thread: nebie help

You should use a vector<string> to store your results. A vector is like an array, but it starts at size 0, and it grows to whatever size you need as you add elements.

another,
when I compare two binary strings given in the example, should I compare bit by bit as a character?

Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

You should compare the data as it is. Use bitwise OR and cast the return as an int. It will basically return the total of unmatched bits in decimal. There is no reason to turn a single byte into 8 bytes by converting it into a character string. Escpecially if you're trying to minimize codeword.

OK.

Is there a way to represent binary numbers in real binary? not like what I thought I should by representing it in strings of zeros and ones. Then just logical OR or AND will make my life easier.

basically, I first have inputs in decimal as the min-terms of a function. Then I have to convert those minterms to binary codewords to compare each one of them to the others to detect the ones that are differ only by 1 bit.