how do i convert a text entered through keyboard into a binary format?
Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then
binary???
Is this method correct? Please advise.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Raghu 11 4479
raghu said:
how do i convert a text entered through keyboard
C doesn't guarantee you a keyboard. Presumably you mean the standard input
stream.
into a binary format?
Which binary format would you like?
Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then
binary???
Is this method correct? Please advise.
You need to be a lot more specific about the nature of your input and the
desired characteristics of the corresponding output.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
I mean by using scanf statement if i give the text message (including
only spaces not special characters) can that be converted to binary 1's
and 0's.
Hope now i'm clear
Richard Heathfield wrote:
raghu said:
how do i convert a text entered through keyboard
C doesn't guarantee you a keyboard. Presumably you mean the standard input
stream.
into a binary format?
Which binary format would you like?
Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then
binary???
Is this method correct? Please advise.
You need to be a lot more specific about the nature of your input and the
desired characteristics of the corresponding output.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
"raghu" writes:
how do i convert a text entered through keyboard into a binary format?
Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then
binary???
Is this method correct? Please advise.
No. The phrase "binary file" in the context of the C language was a very
poor and misleading choice. A binary file is one in which CR and LF have
the same encoding in an external medium (file) and in RAM. A so-called
"text" file silently transforms between <CR><LFor <LF><CRand '\n' when
the file is read or written. (Note that 'n' has the same ASCII encoding as
LF.)
What is ASCII? It is a formal definition, mapping if you like, between
certain glyphs in the latin alphabet -mostly - and a binary code. It already
*is* a binary file, if the word binary is not misused. A file that consists
entirely of ASCII characters should always be saved and
retrieved as a non-binary file. With the usual caveats about "always" being
a troublesome word.
If this leaves you confused, do a search on google groups, you will find
older posts discussing this problem..
"raghu" <ra*********@gm ail.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ h48g2000cwc.goo glegroups.com.. .
>I mean by using scanf statement if i give the text message (including
only spaces not special characters) can that be converted to binary 1's
and 0's.
Don't top post!
And no, it is not clear what ou want.
As soon as you accept anything from stdin (no matter what method you use),
what you read is already "stored" in the computer in binary.
That is, the computer only contains a whole bunch of ones and zeroes.
Nothing else. No letters, names, colors, or animals (well, once a ladybug
did get in my computer, so maybe the latter isn't quite true).
That's it. Just ones and zeroes.
Now, certain sequences of ones and zeros are sometimes
interpreted as representing certain characters.
So what is it you really want to do with these ones and zeros?
<snip>
--
Fred L. Kleinschmidt
Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
Technical Architect, Software Reuse Project
"raghu" <ra*********@gm ail.comwrites:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>raghu said:
how do i convert a text entered through keyboard
C doesn't guarantee you a keyboard. Presumably you mean the standard input stream.
into a binary format?
Which binary format would you like?
Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then
binary???
Is this method correct? Please advise.
You need to be a lot more specific about the nature of your input and the desired characteristics of the corresponding output.
I mean by using scanf statement if i give the text message (including
only spaces not special characters) can that be converted to binary 1's
and 0's.
Hope now i'm clear
Please don't top-post. Read these: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/topposting.php
No, you're not at all clear. You haven't given us any idea of what
1's and 0's you want.
Converting the input to Morse Code and representing dots as 0 and
dashes as 1 would meet the requirements you've stated so far. I'm
reasonably sure it wouldn't meet your *actual* requirements. Unless
you tell us what your actual requirements are, we can't help you.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
raghu wrote:
how do i convert a text entered through keyboard into a binary format?
Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then
binary???
In standard C you can't assume input is from a keyboard and ASCII is
the character encoding used.
Besides you not clear at all in specifying what you want to do. If you
want to convert the input to it's binary representation, (i.e. convert
'a' to '01100001', assuming ASCII), then this is a trivial job. Convert
each character of input as it arrives and send it to the desired output
stream. You can use a lookup table method for the conversion.
Apart from that, I'm not sure _what_ you're trying to do. Remenber that
within the computer, _all_ data is binary data.
raghu wrote:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>raghu said:
>>how do i convert a text entered through keyboard
C doesn't guarantee you a keyboard. Presumably you mean the standard input stream.
>>into a binary format?
Which binary format would you like?
>>Should I first convert each letter of the text to ASCII and then binary???
Is this method correct? Please advise.
You need to be a lot more specific about the nature of your input and the desired characteristics of the corresponding output.
-- Richard Heathfield "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
I mean by using scanf statement if i give the text message (including
only spaces not special characters) can that be converted to binary 1's
and 0's.
Hope now i'm clear
No, These values are already, as most other things represented in a
computer else, a binary value. Perhaps you want to convert it
to a textual representation of the binary value ?
int main(void)
{
char ch[20];
printf("enter the text");
scanf("%s",ch);
printf("the binary equivalent of the text is\n");
//here what should be the statement to convert it into binary
}
Ex: if i give the text as : google welcomes
I shud get binary equivalent of each letter as output
Hope this time i'm very clear....
Sorry for the inconvenience.. .
/* Once again, jmcgill foolishly does someone else's homework */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define BYTE_BITS 8
void int2bin(char *out, char b){
int bits;
int k;
bits = BYTE_BITS * sizeof b;
sprintf(out, "");
for(k=bits; k>0; k--){
strncat(out, b & (1 << (k-1) ) ? "1" : "0", 1);
if(!((k-1)%4)) strncat(out, " ", 1);
}
} /* int2bin */
int main(int argc, char **argv){
char out[33];
char in[]="Hello, world!";
int i;
for(i=0; i<strlen(in); i++){
int2bin(out, in[i]);
printf("'%c' == 0x%02X == %sb\n", in[i], in[i], out);
}
return 0;
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