sence in garbage out

Again i have the following

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long unsigned int StringtoNum( char [] );

int main()
{
    //declare variables
    const char cNumbers[4][51] = {
    "37107287533902102798797998220837590246510135740250",
    "46376937677490009712648124896970078050417018260538",
    "74324986199524741059474233309513058123726617309629",
    "91942213363574161572522430563301811072406154908250",
    };

    int i, j, k, iNumCarry;
    long unsigned int iTotal = 0, iTenDigits[4] = { 0 };
    char cStrtoNum[11] = { '\0' };

    for ( i = 0; i < 4; i++ )
    {
        for ( j = 40; j < 51; j++ )
        {
            cStrtoNum[j-40] = cNumbers[i][j];
        }
        iTenDigits[i] = StringtoNum( cStrtoNum );
        printf("%s %lu\n", cStrtoNum, iTenDigits[i]);
    }

    return 0;
}

long unsigned int StringtoNum( char strConvert[] )
{
    long unsigned int iNumConverted = 0;

    iNumConverted = atoi( strConvert );

    return iNumConverted;
}

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the output is as follows

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0135740250 135740250
7018260538 18446744072137877562
6617309629 18446744071736926653
6154908250 1859940954

Process returned 0 (0x0)  execution time : 0.001 s
Press ENTER to continue.

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as you can see the first number works fine the rest are utter garbage

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char cStrtoNum[11] = { '\0' };

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I would try

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char cStrtoNum[13] = { '\0' };

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Because I think your for loop is going one too much.

Note: That would mean

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char cStrtoNum[12] = { '\0' };

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Would be needed I did one extra in case I am wrong and your are off by two.

Tim S.

atoi outputs an int, not an unsigned long.
Your values are too big for a 32-bit int and since atoi is stupid it just wraps around, potentially to a negative value representation which is then interpreted as an unsigned long, giving a large value. (The negative value is essentially added to 2**64, assuming 64-bit unsigned longs.)
In the last case it wrapped around to a positive value.
Note that 6154908250 % (2**31) = 1859940954 (2**31 is the largest positive 32-bit int.)
The behavior is of course undefined, so it doesn't have to work this way. However, it typically works this way.

atol outputs a long (but not an unsigned long).
strtoul outputs an unsigned long, so that's the one to use here.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
 
int main() {
    const char *numbers[4] = {
        "37107287533902102798797998220837590246510135740250",
        "46376937677490009712648124896970078050417018260538",
        "74324986199524741059474233309513058123726617309629",
        "91942213363574161572522430563301811072406154908250",
    };
    unsigned long tenDigits[4] = {0};
 
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
        tenDigits[i] = strtoul(numbers[i] + 40, NULL, 10);
        printf("%s %10lu\n", numbers[i] + 40, tenDigits[i]);
    }
 
    return 0;
}

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There's more detail for properly handling errors using strtoul:
strtoul, strtoull - cppreference.com

wow thanks for that it help tremendously. The task was to add 100 50 digit numbers and display the first 10 digits of the answer. So i could test and for easy posting on here i just used the first 4 hence the #define N. this is the final solution.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define N 4

long unsigned int StringtoNum( char [] );
void DivideString( const char * [], char [], int, int, int );

int main()
{
    //declare variables
    const char *cNumbers[N] = {
    "37107287533902102798797998220837590246510135740250",
    "46376937677490009712648124896970078050417018260538",
    "74324986199524741059474233309513058123726617309629",
    "91942213363574161572522430563301811072406154908250",
    };

    int i, iNumCarry = 0, j = 50;
    long unsigned int iDivide =10000000000, iFinalTotal = 0;
    double tmpTotal = 0;
    char cStrtoNum[11] = { '\0' };

    do
    {
        j -= 10;
        tmpTotal += iNumCarry;

        if ( j > 0 )
        {
            for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ )
            {
                DivideString( cNumbers, cStrtoNum, i, j, j + 11 );
                tmpTotal += StringtoNum( cStrtoNum );
            }

            iNumCarry = tmpTotal / iDivide;
            printf("%lf %d\n", tmpTotal, iNumCarry);
            tmpTotal = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ )
            {
                DivideString( cNumbers, cStrtoNum, i, j, j + 11 );
                tmpTotal += StringtoNum( cStrtoNum );
            }
        }

    } while ( j > 0 );

    iFinalTotal = tmpTotal / 100;
    printf("%lu\n", iFinalTotal);

    return 0;
}

long unsigned int StringtoNum( char strConvert[] )
{
    long unsigned int iNumConverted = 0;

    iNumConverted = strtoul( strConvert, NULL, 10 );

    return iNumConverted;
}

void DivideString( const char *cData[], char strToConvert[], int i, int iLower, int iUpper)
{
    //declare variable
    int j;

    for ( j = iLower; j < iUpper; j++ )
    {
        strToConvert[j - iLower] = cData[i][j];
    }

}

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once again as always thanks for the help

Your code can be simplified to the following. Also, at least in the N=4 case, you can't be certain that the final value needs to be divided by 100. If all the numbers started with 1 then it would only need to be divided by 10.

Note that in modern practice we don't declare all our variables at the top of a function. Instead we declare them where they are first used, in the smallest scope.

Say "unsigned long", not "long unsigned int".

It is generally considered idiotic to prefix variables with a type signature.

Output variables are usually put last in a type signature.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
 
#define N 4
 
void substring(const char *in, int from, int to, char *out) {
    int i = from;
    for ( ; i < to; ++i) out[i - from] = in[i];
    out[i - from] = '\0';
}
 
int main() {
    const char *numbers[N] = {
        "37107287533902102798797998220837590246510135740250",
        "46376937677490009712648124896970078050417018260538",
        "74324986199524741059474233309513058123726617309629",
        "91942213363574161572522430563301811072406154908250",
    };
    long unsigned total = 0;
 
    for (int j = 40; j >= 0; j -= 10) {
        for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
            char num[11];
            substring(numbers[i], j, j + 11, num);
            total += strtoul(num, NULL, 10);
        }
        if (j > 0)
            total /= 10000000000UL;
    }
 
    while (total >= 10000000000UL) total /= 10;
    printf("%lu\n", total);
 
    return 0;
}

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You could replace the substring function with an sprintf call:

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sprintf(num, "%.10s", numbers[i] + j);

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i tried your suggestion of having variables with the smallest scope on a different problem and for 5 for loops i had to declare i 4 times. is this the correct practice or if i know i'm going to use a variable multiple times for multiple for loops or the like should i just declare it once and be done with it

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is this the correct practice

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Yes. Remember to do it like this:

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for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) ...

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