Hi,
I recently wrote the following program to convert decimal numbers into binary numbers, the program works fine, however, my question is based around the prebit() function:
Is this good practice? I started off with a reverse() function, but wanted something a bit more elegant, I now wonder if there are any potential problems with this method?
Thanks
Paul
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAX_DIGITS 16
int powi(int number,int powers);
void prebit(char *bin_value,int digit);
int main(int argc,char *argv[]) {
int dec_value = atoi(argv[1]);
char bin_value[MAX_DIGITS+1] = "";
int digit = 0;
int bit = 0;
for (digit=0; digit<MAX_DIGITS; digit++) {
bit = dec_value & powi(2,digit);
if (bit == 0) {
prebit(bin_value,0);
} else {
prebit(bin_value,1);
}
}
printf("%s\n",bin_value);
return 0;
}
int powi(int number,int powers) {
int times = 0;
int power = 1;
for (times=1; times<=powers; times++) {
power = power * number;
}
return power;
}
void prebit(char *bin_value,int digit) {
char tmp_value[MAX_DIGITS+1] = "";
char bit[2] = "";
sprintf(bit,"%d",digit);
/*
** +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+
** bin_value = | 1 | | | | tmp_value = | 0 | | | | After strcpy(tmp_value,bit)
** +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+
** bin_value = | 1 | | | | tmp_value = | 0 | 1 | | | After strcat(tmp_value,bin_value)
** +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+
** bin_value = | 0 | 1 | | | tmp_value = | 0 | 1 | | | After strcpy(bin_value,tmp_value)
** +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+
*/
strcpy(tmp_value,bit);
strcat(tmp_value,bin_value);
strcpy(bin_value,tmp_value);
}