Thread: Number to Text translation

Hey! I need to make a code that translates numbers up to ten digits long into a text format. So far I can get it to translate only numbers up to nine digits long correctly, also it won't print zeroes at the numbers end. Any help would be great! Her's my code so far:

Code:

Code:

#include<stdio.h>


int main () 
{
    int number; //declares user input and other needed variables
    int    r=0; 
    int count = 0;  //declares a counter for the loop
    int digit;  //declares digit to be printed


    printf("enter a number: "); //asks for a number
    scanf("%d", &number);  //scans for a number


    while (number != 0)  //flips order of number input 
    {
        r=r*10;
        r=r+number%10;
        number=number/10;
    }


    number=r;


    printf("%d\n", number);


    while(number > 0) {
        digit = number%10; //finds next digit to print


        switch(digit) //determines what to print
        {
        case 0:
            printf("zero-");
            break;
        case 1:
            printf("one-");
            break;
        case 2:
            printf("two-");
            break;
        case 3:
            printf("three-");
            break;
        case 4:
            printf("four-");
            break;
        case 5:
            printf("five-");
            break;
        case 6:
            printf("six-");
            break;
        case 7:
            printf("seven-");
            break;
        case 8:
            printf("eight-");
            break;
        case 9:
            printf("nine-");
            break;
        }
    number=number/10;  //moves to next iteration correctly
}
    printf("\n");


    return(0);
}

when the number > 0 the program runs, example 101 prints 1, leftover is 01, prints 0 left over is 1, prints on, left over is 0 so ends....example 100, prints 1, leftover is 00, while loop ends because all that is left is 0.

going over 10 digits, it is the lilitation, BIG BIG numbers dont work too well!!!

i would recommend if this is all your programming is doing, use a STRING, and use length for the loop count. then taking first char, then second char, then third char

OR (and this is better IMO) use a char array, so you can then cast it back to ints!

Find your limits.h file in the include directory and find INT_MAX and compare the value to a 10+ digit number.

I would suggest you read the input as a string and deal with each char-digit, then your number can be quite large.

Thanks, I'll try using a string instead!

So I tried to use a string instead. I counted the length of the string to determine the loop and I tried to then use a switch statement to print the correct word, but it doesn't work. It only ever prints the error message for the default case.

Code:

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>  //includes string functions


int main () 
{
    char number[10]; //declares user input and other needed variables
    int length;
    int digit = 0;
    char character;


    printf("enter an integer number ten or fewer digits in length: "); //asks for a number
    scanf("%s", number);  //scans for a number


    length = strlen(number);  //determines length for the loop counter


    for (length; length >0; length--) 
    {
        character = number[digit]; //determine the character



        printf("%c\n", character); 
        
        switch (character) 
        {
        case 0:
            printf("ZERO-");
            break;
        case 1:
            printf("ONE-");
            break;
        case 2:
            printf("TWO-");
            break;
        case 3:
            printf("THREE-");
            break;
        case 4:
            printf("FOUR-");
            break;
        case 5:
            printf("FIVE-");
            break;
        case 6:
            printf("SIX-");
            break;
        case 7:
            printf("SEVEN-");
            break;
        case 8:
            printf("EIGHT-");
            break;
        case 9:
            printf("NINE-");
            break;
        default:
            printf("Incorrect input");
        }
        


        digit=digit+1;
    }


    return(0);
}

​again thanks for any help you can give!

Look up the ASCII table and see what the actual integer values are for the literal characters '0', '1', '2',...,'9' are.

You have 2 choices:

Change your switch cases to test against the literals '0', etc. instead of their representative integer values.
or
Convert the characters to their representative values with an expression like

Code:

character -= '0'

The latter has the bad property of unnecessary conversion in this case. It's something you would do if you wanted to deal with the actual integer values rather than the character literals.

I used the ASCII tables and that worked well. Thanks a bunch for your help, I learned a good amount!