Binary Conversion not working...

It immediately exits for some reason?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

struct bit
{
       int value;
       int power;
       bit *nextbit;
       bit *prevbit;
};

int convert(string bin);
int stringToInt(char b);
int power(int base, int power);

int main()
{
    string bin;
    cout<<"Binary Number to Convert: ";
    getline(cin, bin);
    int baseten = convert(bin);
    cout<<baseten;
    cin.get();
}

int convert(string bin)
{
    int size = bin.size();
    bit *current;
    vector<bit*> v;
    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
            current = new bit;
            v.push_back(current);
            current->power = i;
            current->value = 0;
    }
    //string bits together
    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
            current->prevbit=v.at(v.size()-i);
            current = v.at(v.size()-i);
    }
    //string bits together forward
    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
            current->nextbit = v.at(i);
            current = v.at(i);
    }
    //calculate value
    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
            v.at(i)->value = stringToInt(bin.at((size-1)-i));
    }
    //final calculation
    int converted=0;
    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
    {
            converted += (power(v.at(i)->value, v.at(i)->power));
    }
    return converted;
}

int power(int base, int power)
{
    if(power == 0)
    {
             return base*1;
    }else{
          for(int i=0; i<power; i++)
          {
                  base *= base;
          }
    }
    return base;
}
     
int stringToInt(char b)
{
    if(b == '1')
         return 1;
    else if(b=='0')
         return 0;
}

Thanks!

What do you mean "exits immediately". It should wait for you to type something in, then write the result to the screen - if it doesn't, then there's something wrong with your application.

You may need a cin.ingnore() somewhere before your cin.get() to get rid of the newline that getline() didn't eat, and thus is sitting there ready for cin.get() - if that's what you mean by "exits immediately".

By the way, you could probably do a binary to integer conversions in 15 lines (including main), whilst you have used some 50 or so. No need for a vector either, in my mind.

Something like:

Code:

int o(std::string O)
{
  int l = 0;
  for(size_t i = 0; i < O.length(); i++) {
    if (O[i] == '1')
      l |= (1 << i);
  }
  return l;
}

[This code is intentionally obfuscated so that you don't plug it straight in - if you put this code up for a tutor, you'll get minus-points for style - at least if I was the tutor. ]

--
Mats

Originally Posted by matsp

[This code is intentionally obfuscated ... ]

my head hurts...

Do you have a debugger so that you can step through the code? It should be pausing because of the cin.get(), so if it exits that's probably because it is crashing or having some other problem. For example, this line of code:

Code:

current->prevbit=v.at(v.size()-i);

will throw an exception when i is 0, since v.size() is not a valid index. Since you are using at(), take advantage and add a try/catch block in main to catch an std::out_of_range exception and output an error message.