Re: Conversion of a number from string to vector<int>

From:
"Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:07:41 +0100
Message-ID:
<9hoLp.10385$J65.5502@newsfe14.ams2>
"Anonymous" <anonymous@no.net> wrote in message
news:itkig0$ook$1@speranza.aioe.org...

Paul ha scritto:

He seems to be trying to convert a string to an int, this is what atoi
does.
What is incompetent about trying to provide a helpfull suggestion?


Basically, I am improving a constructor for big integers passed as strings
by the user. The class provides basic math operations in arbitrary
precision. It is everything done. When I implemented the constructor
initially, every char of the string was a digit in a vector<char>. This
was not really efficient. Factorial("1000") required about 70s on my
machine. So I decided to "group" more chars into ints, as (almost) many
chars as possible, that is by building a vector<int> from the given
number. This actually is 7 times faster than before, but is still not
perfect, since not all the possible bits of the integers are used. The
reason is that each digit in the vector<int> is in base B, where B is a
power of 10, not of two:

class BIGINT {
    // Bitset must be signed (for diff. operation).
    typedef signed int Bitset;

    // vector is 25 times faster than list or twice than deque.
    typedef std::vector<Bitset> Sequence;

    // -1 to avoid overflows in sum.
    static const int DGTS = std::numeric_limits<Bitset>::digits10 - 1;

    BIGINT(const char* p = 0) {
// ...
        size_t l = strlen(p);
        for (size_t i = 0; i < l;) {
            Bitset x = 0, f = 1;
            for (int j = 0; j < DGTS && i < l; j++, i++, f *= 10)
                x += (p[l - i - 1] - '0') * f;
            module.push_back(x);
        }
// ...
    }
}


TBH I am still not 100% sure about your problem. I don't think this will
solve your porblem but is it the sort of thing you mean but using bigger
integers?

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <math.h>

std::vector<unsigned> numbers(std::string str, double r){
 std::vector<unsigned> v;
 std::string::iterator it;
 unsigned int temp=0;
 int power=str.length()-1;
 double dec=10;

 for (it=str.begin(); it<str.end(); it++, --power){
  temp += (*it&15)*pow(dec,power);
 }
 while(temp){
  v.push_back(temp%(int)r);
  temp = temp/r;
 }
 return v;
}

int main(){
 std::string str = "253";
 double radix = 127;
 std::vector<unsigned> v = numbers(str, radix);

 for(int i=0; i< v.size(); i++){std::cout<< v[i]<<std::endl;}
}

But instead of taking a number like "253" you want to handle massive
integers which my temp variable wouldn't have the capacity for?

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