[manaila]

Hi Guys,

Can you please help me with how I can "AND" two strings of binary numbers and put the result in another string, that is I have the following:

string str1 = "1111";
string str2 = "1010";
string str3 = logical AND of str1 and str2;

cheers

[shabbir]

You have to loop through each character and AND them to create 3rd string.

[xpi0t0s]

Do you mean logical or bitwise? Logically, both inputs are TRUE so the output would also be TRUE, typically represented as -1, i.e. "1111", but the bitwise AND of 1111 and 1010 is 1010.

If bitwise then to avoid characterset issues you should use logic, i.e.

str3[i]=(str1[i]=='1' && str2[i]=='1') ? '1' : '0';

as opposed to

str3[i]=str1[i] & str2[i];

which will work in ASCII where '0' is 0x30 and '1' is 0x31 but the code would not be portable to charactersets where that relationship is not true. Also the first bit is effectively self-documenting; any maintenance programmer would see that code and understand its intent directly without having to work through the obvious "why is this idiot bitwise ANDing characters?".

[manaila]

Hi,

Actually, I was trying to say bitwise ANDing. Thank you for your suggestions. They greatly helped me!

cheers

[shabbir]

The pleasure is all mine.