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  • M molesworth

    ant-damage wrote:

    After a long trying, I found this snippet:

    ... which is great until you give it a number like 456789. Or if you try it with 23, you'll end up with zeroes. As others have said, a loop will work no matter what number you throw at it.

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    You were right. I've just created a test program to see if that piece of code was doing its paper. I made the test so that it writes to a file the number of failed comparisions. The result file had 200MB of length, so I think it's better to create a new algorithm to do that

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    • A ant damage

      I use C++ to make programs for my arduino Of course, arduino's library collection includes sprintf() in stdio.h By the way it is a c++ compiler

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      CPallini
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      ant-damage wrote:

      I use C++ to make programs for my arduino

      ant-damage wrote:

      By the way it is a c++ compiler

      Did you use C++? :-D

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        ant-damage wrote:

        I use C++ to make programs for my arduino

        ant-damage wrote:

        By the way it is a c++ compiler

        Did you use C++? :-D

        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
        This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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        of course I do Which programming language could be better to be used along the arduino? C++

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        • L Luc Pattyn

          like others have said, a loop containing a modulo 10 and a divide by 10, are what is required. Assembly programming may give access to an instruction that does both operations in one, something higher-level languages typically don't exploit. You probably don't want any leading zeroes, so you should exit the loop as soon as the quotient is zero, but you still need to output the current remainder, i.e. the test belongs at the bottom of the loop as you want at least one digit. Keep in mind that the number has to be positive for all of this to work correctly; for negative numbers, you need to "negate" first. :)

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          ant damage
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          Please show me an example of what you saying. I'm not american nor british.

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            Please show me an example of what you saying. I'm not american nor british.

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            ant-damage wrote:

            I'm not american nor british

            I'll give you an example implementation in pseudo-code then:

            arrayOfInts ToDigits(int value) {
            bool negative=value<0;
            if (negative) value=-value;
            ListOfInts digits=new ListOfInts;
            do {
            int mod=value%10;
            digits.Add(mod);
            value/=10;
            } while (value!=0);
            if (negative) digits.Add(specialCodeForMinusSign);
            return digits.Reverse.ToArray;
            }

            PS: I am aware it would fail when fed int.MinValue :)

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            • L Luc Pattyn

              ant-damage wrote:

              I'm not american nor british

              I'll give you an example implementation in pseudo-code then:

              arrayOfInts ToDigits(int value) {
              bool negative=value<0;
              if (negative) value=-value;
              ListOfInts digits=new ListOfInts;
              do {
              int mod=value%10;
              digits.Add(mod);
              value/=10;
              } while (value!=0);
              if (negative) digits.Add(specialCodeForMinusSign);
              return digits.Reverse.ToArray;
              }

              PS: I am aware it would fail when fed int.MinValue :)

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              ant damage
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              What the purpose of this algorithm? Do you ever saw those 7-segment led displays in your tv, stereo hi-fi, vcr or dvd? I have one of those but with 4 digits in one display, and those digits are in multiplexed mode, so I can only iterate with one at a time. I won't use negative numbers, because I will use that display to make a digital counter/timer. By the way, thanks for the example. I'm now ready to create an optimized one.

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                What the purpose of this algorithm? Do you ever saw those 7-segment led displays in your tv, stereo hi-fi, vcr or dvd? I have one of those but with 4 digits in one display, and those digits are in multiplexed mode, so I can only iterate with one at a time. I won't use negative numbers, because I will use that display to make a digital counter/timer. By the way, thanks for the example. I'm now ready to create an optimized one.

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                Oh great. This thread holds 20 messages already, and now you come with some details. I'm out of here. X|

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                  What the purpose of this algorithm? Do you ever saw those 7-segment led displays in your tv, stereo hi-fi, vcr or dvd? I have one of those but with 4 digits in one display, and those digits are in multiplexed mode, so I can only iterate with one at a time. I won't use negative numbers, because I will use that display to make a digital counter/timer. By the way, thanks for the example. I'm now ready to create an optimized one.

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                  Luc Pattyn
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                  Please don't remove messages that have replies attached; it is against the forum guidelines. I copied your original question here: Hi I need help to find the best snippet to extract individual digits from an integer. Here is an example of what I want to do:

                  int number = 1024; //this is the number I want to split into digits
                  int digit1 = 1;
                  int digit2 = 0;
                  int digit3 = 2;
                  int digit4 = 4;

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                  • D Dr Walt Fair PE

                    "Best" in what way? Since I have no specifications, I'd probably use something quick and dirty like

                    int n = 1024; // given number
                    int d = 2; // digit number, d < n.ToString().Length
                    int ds = int.Parse(n.ToString().Substring(d,1));

                    etc.

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                    Anshul R
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                    Convert the number to string Loop through the characters, store it. Eg : <pre> Dim digits As New ArrayList For Each digit As Char in CStr(number) digits.Add(CInt(digit)) End For </pre>

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                      Please don't remove messages that have replies attached; it is against the forum guidelines. I copied your original question here: Hi I need help to find the best snippet to extract individual digits from an integer. Here is an example of what I want to do:

                      int number = 1024; //this is the number I want to split into digits
                      int digit1 = 1;
                      int digit2 = 0;
                      int digit3 = 2;
                      int digit4 = 4;

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                      I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.


                      I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).


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                      Tadeusz Westawic
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                      int source int digit while source { digit = source % 10 output digit source /= 10 } get u started Tadeusz Westawic Sum quid sum.

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                      • T Tadeusz Westawic

                        int source int digit while source { digit = source % 10 output digit source /= 10 } get u started Tadeusz Westawic Sum quid sum.

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                        Luc Pattyn
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                        there is no need to start this thread all over again. My message to the OP was: don't remove what you wrote, which, for the curious, is: "..." :)

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