isbn problem (barcodes on books)

does anyone know how i can be able to do operations on individual characters from a users input ??

lets say user typed in : 0-8797-0658-9

(isbn problem)
i want to multiply 8 with 2, 7 with 3, 9 with 4, and so on ..
can anyone help me out get those individual numbers from the string so i can do some operations?? thanx

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Originally posted by djxtremor
does anyone know how i can be able to do operations on individual characters from a users input ??

lets say user typed in : 0-8797-0658-9

(isbn problem)
i want to multiply 8 with 2, 7 with 3, 9 with 4, and so on ..
can anyone help me out get those individual numbers from the string so i can do some operations?? thanx

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Another idea:

Code:

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

void f1(const char *buff)
{
  int result;
  char s[5] = {0};

  strncpy(s, &buff[2], 4);          /* copy the second field to s[] */
  result = (int)strtol(s, NULL, 10); /* convert s[] text to int */
  printf("result = %d\n", result);

  strncpy(s, &buff[7], 4);          /* copy the third field to s[] */
  result = (int)strtol(s, NULL, 10); /* convert s[] text to int */
  printf("result = %d\n", result);
}

int main(void)
{
  const char isbn[] = "0-8797-0658-9";
  f1(isbn);
  return(0);
}

/* my output
result = 8797
result = 658
*/

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Another idea:

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This doesn't do what the original poster wants. They want this basic formulae:

string[x] * n;

Where n increments once with each place in.

Thus, if our string were:

1357

It would do:

value = 1 * 2
value = 3 * 3
value = 5 * 4
value = 7 * 5

Where 'value' is the resulting value of the multiplication operation for that cell in the array / string.
Where the value you're multiplying by increments once for each place further along in the string.

So in essence it simply boils down do:

x = 0, n = 2;
string[x++] * n++;

Your example just turns the string form of the number into its literal integral value. As usual, Salem's answer was what they were looking for.

Quzah.

thanx for the help guys ..sorry bout that salem .. i thought both of them were the same thing (buff[i] *2 = ((buff[i] -'0') *2).. but i tried your suggestion and it worked .. thanx so much ..