Hey everyone,

As a small part of a program that I am currently writing, I am trying to read into a function a single int in machine language (1's and 0's) and shoot this number out as a char array in base 16. I am not aware of any library functions for doing this, and quite honestly, would prefer just coding it without functions. I am on a Sparc platform and coding in C.

Thanks.

Now that my curiousity has been piqued, is their a way (without using atoi) to get the binary value from something along the lines of :

char A[]="ADF123";

which would be something to the tune of 1010 1110 1111 0001 0010 0011

My cse courses never went over any of this in detail, so hopefully someone on here could provide some insight.

Thanks

Well, *all* data in C (and any other language for that matter) is already in binary; you just have to know how to print it out that way. If you want to read in a string of characters (1 and 0) representing a binary number, you'd probably have to write a function to do it, since I don't know of any standard C functions for it. A while loop could do the job too, but a function would be better so you could re-use it

Something along the lines of:

int result = 0;
while (more characters)
result *= 2;
if (1 was read), result += 1;
loop

As for printing in hexadecimal, check the manpage for printf()

Your second question could work along the same lines as the first:

int result = 0;
while (more characters)
result *= 16; // since it's base-16
result += current_digit_value; // hex digit converted to an int
loop

Converting the character from hexadecimal notation to an integer is the only slightly tricky part; something like this maybe:

if ( digit >= '0' && digit <= '9' ) // if digit is between 0 and 9
value = digit - '0'; // subtract ascii value of '0' from digit; '0' - '0' = 0
else if ( digit >= 'a' && digit <= 'f' )
value = digit - 'a' + 10; // since 'a' - 'a' = 0, add 10 to get value of 'a', etc.