Thread: Character to Int?

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    Character to Int?

    Thanks for looking .

    I have a character array "address":

    address[0] = '0'
    address[1] = 'x'
    address[2] = 'f'
    address[3] = 'f'
    address[4] = 'f'
    address[5] = 'f'
    address[6] = 'f'
    address[7] = 'f'
    address[8] = 'f'

    How would I store this as an int? I want to have the equivalent of:

    int x = 0xfffffff

    I've tried atoi() to no avail. Any help would be awesome; thanks again .

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    strtol.

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    Don't forget the null char if you do it that way:
    Code:
    address[9] = '\0'
    Better yet:
    Code:
    address[0]char address[] = "0xffffff"; \\ null char is implicit here
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    No idea where that extra "address[0]" came from there. Just pretend it isn't there.
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    Why not edit?
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Thanks for the replies . It's still not working correctly - here's what my code does:

    Code:
    printf("HEX: %s ", line);
     >> outputs 0x430d70
    
    char *p;
    int test = (int)strtol(line, &p, 10);
    
    printf("DECIMAL: %d ", test);
     >> outputs 0
    Any idea why this isn't outputting the expected 4394352?

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    Also - I'm a little confused regarding the variance in outputs here:

    Code:
    printf("HEX1: %s ", line);
    >> 0x430d70
    
    printf("HEX2: %X ", line);
    >> 22FF40
    Any brief explanation would be awesome. Thank you again for your time.

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    For the first, strtol interprets the "x" in the "0x" as the end of the string, thus returning only 0.
    For the second, it is undefined. You are telling printf that you are passing an integer, but you are passing a char pointer.
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Thanks Elysia.

    If any character closes the strtol method then how can it be used to convert '0x430d70' to an integer or binary? I want to store this value (line) as a number, not as a string.

    If I do int x = 0x234, great. I can print x as hex, binary, int, etc.

    I'm trying to get this character array stored as a number, like x.

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    Actually, I do not know how exactly, hence that bit missing from my reply.
    I was simply too tired to look up strtol in the doc to see if there was a solution to the problem.
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    No worries - I have it working with
    Code:
    int val = 0;
    sscanf(line, "%x", &val);

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    Good work. Problem solving is a very important trait for programmers.
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deliveryguy View Post
    Thanks Elysia.

    If any character closes the strtol method then how can it be used to convert '0x430d70' to an integer or binary? I want to store this value (line) as a number, not as a string.

    If I do int x = 0x234, great. I can print x as hex, binary, int, etc.

    I'm trying to get this character array stored as a number, like x.
    Did you read the manual on strtol? Did you wonder what that parameter called "base" did? (I realize you got there with sscanf.)

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