Thread: Subsets of binary string

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    Subsets of binary string

    Hello everyone. I am working on a program in which part of it I need to generate all subsets of a 10-bit binary string. So, I need to iterate through:

    0000000001 - 1
    0000000010 - 2
    0000000011 - 3
    .
    .
    .
    1111111111 - 1023


    Can anyone just help me a bit on some theoretical ways to go about this? For some reason I can't get my head around where to start.
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    Displaying bits? Or turning a text representation of a binary number into an integers (use strtoul).
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    I want to generate all possible combinations of a 10-bit binary sequence and put each into an array of strings that would be of size 1024.
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    Minor mod to the code from the first link (well, if you followed on to Part 2).
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    char *bits_myuint(char *dest, unsigned int value)
    {
       char *start = dest;
       unsigned int bit;
       for ( bit = 0x200; bit > 0; bit >>= 1 )
       {
          *dest++ = value & bit ? '1' : '0';
       }
       *dest = 0;
       return start;
    }
    
    char Binary[1024][11];
    
    int main()
    {
       unsigned int i;
       for ( i = 0; i < sizeof Binary / sizeof *Binary; ++i )
       {
          puts(bits_myuint(Binary[i], i));
       }
       return 0;
    }
    Last edited by Dave_Sinkula; 05-03-2005 at 08:57 AM.
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    Wow, thanks Dave. Now it's time for me to study and understand that code before I consider putting it into my code. Greatly appreciated.
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