Re: C++ way to convert ASCII digits to Integer?
blargg wrote:
andreas.koestler wrote:
On May 27, 9:18?am, "Peter Olcott" <NoS...@SeeScreen.com> wrote:
I remember that there is a clean C++ way to do this [convert
ASCII digits to Integer], but, I forgot what it was.
I don't know what you mean by 'clean C++ way' but one way to do it is:
int ascii_digit_to_int ( const char asciidigit ) {
if ( asciidigit < '0' ||
asciidigit > '9' ) {
throw NotADigitException();
}
return (int) asciidigit - 48; // 48 => '0'
}
[...]
Not if the machine doesn't use ASCII; only a function like yours above
is fully portable.
Whoops, that's wrong too, as the above function uses '0' and '9', which
won't be ASCII on a non-ASCII machine. So the above should really use 48
and 57 in place of those character constants, to live up to its name.
Otherwise, on a machine using ASCII, it'll work, but on another, it'll be
broken and neither convert from ASCII nor the machine's native character
set!
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