Thread: convert char array to int array

Hi, im having a bit of trouble with getting my string converted into an array of ints, as i am quite new to c.
Basically the program reads in user input (which is only integers) as a string or array of chars, and i want to change it to an array of integers and print it out again. Heres what i have so far..

Code:

int main() {

  char num1[255];
  int num10[255];
  int i;
  int j;
  
  fscanf(stdin, "%s", num1);  
  j = strlen(num1);

  
  for (i = 0; i < j; i++){
   num1[i] == num10[i];
   printf("%d", num10[i]);
   }
   
}

basically this just prints out an array filled with 0's.
any help would be much appreciated.

And where do you assign anything to num10? (Assignment is =, not ==, and the thing assigned to must be on the left.)

You have another problem, in that while assigning a character to an integer is meaningful, it perhaps doesn't mean what you want it to mean. (For instance, '0' is 48.)

ok thanks, i see what your saying. i guess the next question would be, if lets say the user input was a string of 1234, how do i get to print an integer array of 1234?

I think you want to take a look at functions like atoi(), strtol() or sscanf().

ok so i had a look at using atoi() and didnt get very far. here is what i did in my for loop.

Code:

for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
   k = atoi(num1[i]);
   num10[i] = k;
   printf("%d", num10[i]);
 }

i got an error on compiling that said "passing arg 1 of 'atoi' makes pointer from integer without a cast. im not exactly sure what that means and how to get around it

atoi does the whole thing in one shot -- you give the array num1, not a character, and get back an integer that is the whole number, not a single digit.

ohh i see. well then i guess i was going down the wrong track, because what i really want is each of the digits split up into an array of ints. so if i get a number 200 digits long i cant store that in an int, but rather each digit in the array of ints.

But i am still stuck on how to go about it. Any more help will much appreciated!!

Then ignore everything cpjust said and go back to assignment. As mentioned, things won't be exactly right, but you should be able to figure out the pattern to make it work.

wow thanks! i just took 48 from the number it converted and it printed out the original. thanks heaps

Originally Posted by skeme

wow thanks! i just took 48 from the number it converted and it printed out the original. thanks heaps

That's not portable though, since it assumes you're always on an ASCII system; plus is uses a magic number in your code.
A better thing would be to just subtract '0', ex:

Code:

num10[i] = num1[i] - '0';