clearing decimal 0s in ints

[Soulzityr]

Hey, I just have a quick question that I can't find online.

let's say you have

int a=00050;

is there a way to delete those unimportant 0's so that you are left with 50? it keeps the important 0 marker but deletes the unimportant ones?

[MK27]

Yep.

int a=50;

all thanks to my secret decoder ring.

[Soulzityr]

hmm maybe i should be clearer

what will happen is there will be

a char* test that takes in a number, and then i atoi(test) it to become an int

then i %10, /10 so i can store it in a linked list, each separate digit

those 0s will get stored, but i dont want them to. so how do i get rid of those 0s

btw they will be stored backwards so i cant just delete every 0 until it reads the 5

it needs to be like, read the singles 0, then the tens 5, then somehow know to delete the rest of zeros, so im wondering if theres a way to just get rid of them

[sean]

Once you convert the number to an int, the trailing 0's make no difference.

[Soulzityr]

but it does

i am putting in 002 and when i print my int it prints out 2 but when i print out the linked list it comes out to 0->0->2

[sean]

Post your code. I suspect you're creating your linked list according to the length of the char array instead of stopping when there are no more decimal digits to be represented in the int.

[Soulzityr]

struct integer* convert_integer(char* stringInt) {
   //not really in my funct: : :       char* stringInt=deleteZeros(stringInt);
   int test=atoi(&stringInt[0]);
   struct integer* list=createNode(test%10);
   int k;
   for(k=1;k<strlen(stringInt);k++) {
      test/=10;
      list=insertBack(list,(test%10));
   }
   return list;

}

this is my function attempt but i know its wrong; btw the above function is indeed taking the number backwards; that's intended

char* deleteZeros(char* stringInt) {
   char* solve;
   int k=strlen(stringInt);
   while(k>0) {
      if(stringInt[k]==0) {
         stringInt[k]==NULL;                   
         k--;
      }
      else {
         return stringInt;  
      }
   }
}

[sean]

for(k=1;k<strlen(stringInt);k++) {

Yeah - that's your problem. You're working with the int based on how many characters are in the string. Perhaps a better solution would be to loop as long as test > 0.

[Soulzityr]

ahh thank you, now my code is currently

struct integer* convert_integer(char* stringInt) {
   int test=atoi(&stringInt[0]);
   struct integer* list=createNode(test%10);
   int k;
   //for(k=1;k<strlen(stringInt);k++) {
   while(test>0) {
      test/=10;
      list=insertBack(list,(test%10));
   }

//MARKER
   struct integer* current=list;
   while(current->next!=NULL) {
      current=current->next;                  
   }
   if(current->digit==0)
      free(current);
//END MARKER

   return list;
}

the code works mostly, thanks for the advice but when i run 000250 and then i print the linked list it prints 0250; so i tried to get rid of the last 0 using the code encased by MARKER; heheh it must be horribly written code cuz it just doesnt stop running :P infinite looop...somehow

[sean]

Try

while(test >= 10)

or something like that.

[Soulzityr]

ahhh wow you are right; thanks for the helpp :P :P im trying to read through it but i dont quite get the logic behind that while parameter but i'll look over it again; thanks so much XDD now all i have left is the subtract method haha thank you