Thread: Adding strings of integers

I'm trying to write an algorithm for a larger project that will take two strings which are both large integers (only using 10 digit numbers for the sake of this demo) and add them together to produce a final string that accurately represents the sum of the two original strings. I realize there are potentially better ways to have gone about this from the beginning but I am supposed to specifically use strings of large integers as opposed to a long integer.

My thinking was to take the two original strings, reverse them so their ones position, tens position, and so on all line up properly for adding. Then one position at a time, convert the characters from the strings to single integers and add them together and then use that sum as the ones position or otherwise for the final string, which once completed will also be reversed back to the correct order of characters.

Where I'm running into trouble I think is in preparing for the event in which the two integers from the corresponding positions in their strings add to a sum greater than 9, and I would then have carry over some remainder to the next position. For example, if I had 7 and 5 in my ones positions that would add to 12, so I would keep the 2 and add 1 to the tens position once it looped back around for the tens position operation.

I'm not getting results that are in any way accurate and after spending a large amount of time stumbling over myself trying to rectify my algorithm, I am not sure what I need to do to fix this.

Hopefully my intended process is clear and someone will be able to point me in the right direction or correct some mistake I may have in my program.

Thanks in advance.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <string>


using namespace std;


int main ()
{
    string str1 = "1234567890", str2 = "2345678901"; //Two original strings of large integers
    string rev_str1, rev_str2;
    int int1 = 0, int2 = 0;
    string final; //Final product string, sum of two original strings
    int temp_int = 0, buffer_int, remainder = 0;
    string temp_str = "", buffer_str;
    char buffer[100] = {0};


    cout << "str1 = " << str1 << endl;
    cout << endl;
    cout << "str2 = " << str2 << endl;
    cout << endl;


    rev_str1 = string(str1.rbegin(), str1.rend());


    rev_str2 = string(str2.rbegin(), str2.rend());


    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        buffer_str = rev_str1.at(i);


        int1 = atoi(buffer_str.c_str());


        buffer_str = rev_str2.at(i);


        int2 = atoi(buffer_str.c_str());


        buffer_int += (int1 + int2 + remainder);


        remainder = 0;


        while (buffer_int > 9)
        {
            buffer_int -= 10;


            remainder += 10;
        }


        temp_str = itoa(buffer_int, buffer, 10);


        final += temp_str;
    }


    final = string(final.rbegin(), final.rend());


    cout << "final = " << final << endl;


    cout << endl;
}

Was just using Code::Blocks. Yeah, I thought I was on track with it but after giving it a day I went back and figured it out. Thanks all.