Re: a way of converting a roman numeral into an integer
Oliver, thanks for the reply.
I have a rough idea on switch statements, i have some books with
explanations so i can look over them, would you recommend having
different cases for each Numeral? Or which way of doing it would you
recommend?
I was going to have something like this before within the code, char c
represents the character the user has input.
static int convertRoman(char c)
{
if (c=='I') return 1;
if (c=='V') return 5;
if (c=='X') return 10;
if (c=='L') return 50;
if (c=='C') return 100;
if (c=='D') return 500;
if (c=='M') return 1000;
return 0;
}
Oliver Wong wrote:
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Hi i'm fairly new to java and have been assigned to create a basic
application which converts a roman numeral inputted by a user and then
outputs the corresponding number (integer). Any tips on how to do this
will be much appriciated.
I was thinking of doing an array for each numeral and number but again
i can't really work this out till i figure out how to convert the
numeral into an integer.
Presumably, you mean you want to convert an ASCII representation of the
roman numerals, so that the 4-character string "VIII" represents 8, as
opposed to using the Unicode single character representation for roman
numeral eight.
Do you know how to use a switch statement?
- Oliver
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