Re: Vector help, subscript out of range, and basic tutoring

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:31:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Mar 15, 9:50 pm, yogi_bear_79 <yogi_bear...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Distant learning student. My lab is to write a function to perform
the addition of large integers, with no limit to the number of digits.
(Also have to do a subtraction, division, and multiplication lab). It
is suggested to treat each number as a sequence. This is what I have
so far, this is rough code just to get it working:

1. I can't get the syntax correct on the 'for' statement in the
longAdditon function. No matter what I try I get a run-time error
subscript out of range.

2. Being very much a rookie, I am sure this isn't the prettiest code;
I am open to ideas, hints, etc. Bear in mind that I am basically self
taught here, and more of a systems admin than a programmer.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int longAdditon(vector<int> &vOne, vector<int> &vTwo);
string toStr(int &i);

int main ()
{
        vector<int> vOne, vTwo;
        string one, two;
        int x = 0;
        size_t r;

        cin>>one;
        r = one.length();

        for (int x = 0; x < r; x++){
                vOne.push_back(int(one[x] - '0'));
        }

        cin>>two;
        r = two.length();

        for (int x = 0; x < r; x++){
                vTwo.push_back(int(two[x] - '0'));
        }

        longAdditon(vOne, vTwo);

}

int longAdditon(vector<int> &vOne, vector<int> &vTwo)
{
        int sum, carryOver = 0;
        string results;

        for(size_t x = vOne.size()-1; x >= 0; x--){


Note, because 'x' is of type size_t, it will *never* be less than 0.
As such,
x >= 0 will always be true.

I suggest you look into vector::rbegin() and vector::rend().

Even better would be to use std::transform to add each element of the
two vectors together, then go through the result and take care of the
carryover as a separate operation.

Lastly, you really should wrap the whole thing into a class...

   class BigNum {
   public:
      explicit BigNum( const std::string& s );
      std::string print() const;
   };

   BigNum add( const BigNum& left, const BigNum& right );

Later, when you learn about operator overloading, you can make it so
that someone can use the '+' to add two bigNums, like this:

   BigNum x, y;
   // put values in them
   BigNum z = x + y;

a BigNumber class is a great way to learn the language.

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