I'm working on a project and I want my program to read a strictly 5 digits number with a leading zero.
How can I print the number with the leading zero included?
Plus: how can I provide that my program reads 5 digits including a zero as a leading number?
The best way to have input under control is to read in a string and then parse/analyze the string as desired. If, for example, "exactly five digits" means: "exactly 5 digits (not less, not more), no other leading characters other than '0', and no negative numbers", then you could use function strtol
, which tells you where number parsing has ended. Therefrom, you can derive how many digits the input actually has:
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char line[50];
if (fgets(line,50,stdin)) {
if (isdigit((unsigned char)line[0])) {
char* endptr = line;
long number = strtol(line, &endptr, 10);
int nrOfDigitsRead = (int)(endptr - line);
if (nrOfDigitsRead != 5) {
printf ("invalid number of digits, i.e. %d digits (but should be 5).\n", nrOfDigitsRead);
} else {
printf("number: %05lu\n", number);
}
}
else {
printf ("input does not start with a digit.\n");
}
}
}