how to take IPV6 input in c++ need help

[aaaliii]

Hi!
i'm really not a programming guy but one of teacher asked me to use c++ and take input of ipv6 address from user and then perform following:
1. convert the address to binary
2. write it in a short form

any help is appreciated.. thank you in advance

[weaknessforcats]

So ignore the ipv6 stuff and write a program where the user enters an address, like 1234567. If you accept that into an unsigned int, then it is already in binary.

Do you know if the teacher meant the user typed the address in hexadecimal? Like A6B5C4D3? Then you would need to convert the hex to binary.

There is an if/then/else syntax in C++ and various techie types prefer a "short form", which is using the ternary operator from 1968 C. That would be the (condition)?do-this-if-true : do this-if-false rather than coding if/else. My suggestion here is to use if/else to get things working and then replace the if/else with the ternary operator ?:

[donbock]

It can help to "storyboard" your program before trying to write it.

For example, consider a program that takes a user entry and converts it first to one thing and then to another. Make a table with three columns on a pad of paper, where the first column is the user entry and the remaining columns are for the two outputs. Fill out the table for a few reasonable inputs; but then add entries for odd inputs (empty string, illegal characters, out of range value, minimum value, maximum value, etc).

I find that visualizing the necessary conversions makes writing the code easier.

This pen-and-paper storyboard (or table) is essentially a statement of the requirements for the program. You can't write a program if you're unsure what it is supposed to do.