Converting string of 1s and 0s into binary value - c++

Question

I'm trying to convert an incoming sting of 1s and 0s from stdin into their respective binary values (where a string such as "11110111" would be converted to 0xF7). This seems pretty trivial but I don't want to reinvent the wheel so I'm wondering if there's anything in the C/C++ standard libs that can already perform such an operation?

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void) {
char * ptr;
long parsed = strtol("11110111", & ptr, 2);
printf("%lX\n", parsed);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
For larger numbers, there as a long long version, strtoll.

Answer 2

You can use std::bitset (if then length of your bits is known at compile time)
Though with some program you could break it up into chunks and combine.
#include <bitset>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::bitset<5> x(std::string("01011"));
std::cout << x << ":" << x.to_ulong() << std::endl;
}

Answer 3

You can use strtol
char string[] = "1101110100110100100000";
char * end;
long int value = strtol (string,&end,2);

Answer 4

You can use Boost Dynamic Bitset:
boost::dynamic_bitset<> x(std::string("01011"));
std::cout << x << ":" << x.to_ulong() << std::endl;

Answer 5

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
string getBinaryString(int value, unsigned int length, bool reverse) {
string output = string(length, '0');
if (!reverse) {
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
if ((value & (1 << i)) != 0) {
output[i] = '1';
}
}
}
else {
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
if ((value & (1 << (length - i - 1))) != 0) {
output[i] = '1';
}
}
}
return output;
}
unsigned long getInteger(const string& input, size_t lsbindex, size_t msbindex) {
unsigned long val = 0;
unsigned int offset = 0;
if (lsbindex > msbindex) {
size_t length = lsbindex - msbindex;
for (size_t i = msbindex; i <= lsbindex; i++, offset++) {
if (input[i] == '1') {
val |= (1 << (length - offset));
}
}
}
else { //lsbindex < msbindex
for (size_t i = lsbindex; i <= msbindex; i++, offset++) {
if (input[i] == '1') {
val |= (1 << offset);
}
}
}
return val;
}
int main() {
int value = 23;
cout << value << ": " << getBinaryString(value, 5, false) << endl;
string str = "01011";
cout << str << ": " << getInteger(str, 1, 3) << endl;
}