How to get number's length in Dart? - dart

How could I get the length of a number in Dart? Is there an equivalent to the one used in strings?
For ex: 1050000 has a length of 7. How could I dynamically discover this?

You can try this.
int i = 1050000;
int length = i.toString().length; // 7
// or
int length = '$i'.length; // 7

With this extension method you would be able to use the length method on any number.
extension Num on num {
int length() => this.toString().length;
}

not precisely the question, but since I found this on my search for getting the magnitude and since I then copied the above answer without thinking:
If you want the magnitude of the number
extension Num on num {
int length() => this.toInt().toString().length;
}

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How to write a binary literal in Dart

How do you write a Binary Literal in Dart?
I can write a Hex Literal like so:
Int Number = 0xc
If I try the conventional way to write a Binary Literal:
Int Number = 0b1100
I get an error. I've tried to look it up, but I've not been able to find any information other than for hex.
There are currently no built-in binary number literals in Dart (or any base other than 10 and 16).
The closest you can get is: var number = int.parse("1100", radix: 2);.
Maybe you can use this:
// 0b1100 -> 1 at 3th bit and 1 at 2nd bit
final number = 1 << 3 | 1 << 2;
// Print binary string
print(number.toRadixString(2)) // 1100
Try binary package:
import 'package:binary/binary.dart';
void main() {
// New API.S
print(0x0C.toBinaryPadded(8)); // 00001100
}
see: https://pub.dev/documentation/binary/latest/

String to int conversion not working swift

I am trying to do some operation on an array of digits. i wish to combine them and do something. i know reduce operation also works but i am not sure why this is not working.
var digits = [7,2,8,5,0,9,1,2,9,5,3,6,6,7,3,2,8,4,3,7]
var strDigits = ""
for i in digits
{
strDigits += String(i)
}
print(strDigits)
if let number = Int(strDigits) {
print(number)
}
else{
print("didnt work")
}
this will print didnt work. if i reduce the elements in array by 1 it starts working again and print the number. why is the limitation that string cant be cast to int if the string is too long?
When you concat all the numbers to string, the number then becomes too big for Int64 too handle, whose upper limit is 9223372036854775807, whereas your number is 72850912953667328447.
Edited for Martin's correction.

In Dart is there a quick way to convert int to double?

Very simple issue. I have the useless class:
class Useless{
double field;
Useless(this.field);
}
I then commit the mortal sin and call new Useless(0);
In checked mode (which is how I run my tests) that blows up, because 'int' is not a subtype of type 'double'.
Now, it works if I use new Useless(0.0) , but honestly I spend a lot of time correcting my tests putting .0s everywhere and I feel pretty dumb doing that.
As a temporary measure I rewrote the constructor as:
class Useless{
double field;
Useless(num input){
field = input.toDouble();
}
}
But that's ugly and I am afraid slow if called often. Is there a better way to do this?
Simply toDouble()
Example:
int intVar = 5;
double doubleVar = intVar.toDouble();
Thanks to #jamesdlin who actually gave this answer in a comment to my previous answer...
In Dart 2.1, integer literals may be directly used where double is expected. (See https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/34355.)
Note that this is syntactic sugar and applies only to literals. int variables still won't be automatically promoted to double, so code like:
double reciprocal(double d) => 1 / d;
int x = 42;
reciprocal(x);
would fail, and you'd need to do:
reciprocal(x.toDouble());
You can also use:
int x = 15;
double y = x + .0;
use toDouble() method.
For e.g.:
int a = 10
print(a.toDouble)
//or store value in a variable and then use
double convertedValue = a.toDouble()
From this attempt:
class Useless{
double field;
Useless(num input){
field = input.toDouble();
}
}
You can use the parse method of the double class which takes in a string.
class Useless{
double field;
Useless(num input){
field = double.parse(input.toString()); //modified line
}
}
A more compact way of writing the above class using constructor's initialisers is:
class Useless{
double _field;
Useless(double field):_field=double.parse(field.toString());
}
Since all divisions in flutter result to a double, the easiest thing I did to achieve this was just to divide the integer value with 1:
i.e.
int x = 15;
double y = x /1;
There's no better way to do this than the options you included :(
I get bitten by this lots too, for some reason I don't get any warnings in the editor and it just fails at runtime; mighty annoying :(
I'm using a combination:
static double checkDouble(dynamic value) {
if (value is String) {
return double.parse(value);
} else if (value is int) {
return 0.0 + value;
} else {
return value;
}
}
This is how you can cast from int to double
int a = 2;
double b = a*1.0;

Swift - Convert to absolute value

is there any way to get absolute value from an integer?
for example
-8
to
8
I already tried to use UInt() assuming it will convert the Int to unsigned value but it didn't work.
The standard abs() function works great here:
let c = -8
print(abs(c))
// 8
With Swift 5, you may use one of the two following ways in order to convert an integer to its absolute value.
#1. Get absolute value of an Int from magnitude property
Int has a magnitude property. magnitude has the following declaration:
var magnitude: UInt { get }
For any numeric value x, x.magnitude is the absolute value of x.
The following code snippet shows how to use magnitude property in order to get the absolute value on an Int instance:
let value = -5
print(value.magnitude) // prints: 5
#2. Get absolute value of an Int from abs(_:) method
Swift has a global numeric function called abs(_:) method. abs(_:) has the following declaration:
func abs<T>(_ x: T) -> T where T : Comparable, T : SignedNumeric
Returns the absolute value of the given number.
The following code snippet shows how to use abs(_:) global function in order to get the absolute value on an Int instance:
let value = -5
print(abs(value)) // prints: 5
If you want to force a number to change or keep it positive.
Here is the way:
abs() for int
fabs() for double
fabsf() for float
If you want to get absolute value from a double or Int, use fabs func:
var c = -12.09
print(fabs(c)) // 12.09
c = -6
print(fabs(c)) // 6

How to get the length of an array?

How to get the length of a string array like
str 30 name[];//dynamic array
I used the following for getting the length,but it showing the error as "the variable is not of the type CLASS."
int len=name.get_length();
It sounds like you might be happier using the Array collection class.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/array.aspx
static void TestArray(Args _args)
{
Array strArray = new Array(Types::String);
;
strArray.value(1, 'abc');
strArray.value(2, 'def');
info(strfmt("%1", strArray.lastIndex()));
}
You need the dimOf function. Take a look to the reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa597117.aspx
Sorry, there is no build-in function to return the string array size. Since you are in full control what you put in the array, there need not be any!
The built-in function dimof returns the allocated size of the array, which is only of practical value for a fixed size array like str 30 name[20], where dimof(name) returns 20.
A clean way to remain in control, is to use a setter function:
static void TestArray(Args _args)
{
str 30 name[];
int n = 0;
int i;
void nameSet(int _i, str 30 _name)
{
n = max(n,_i);
name[_i] = _name;
}
;
nameSet(2,'abc');
nameSet(4,'def');
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
info(name[i]);
}
There is no upper bound index limit, so accessing name[7] is perfectly valid and in this case returns a blank value. This may be used to your advantage, if you always use all holes and never stores a blank:
static void TestArray(Args _args)
{
str 30 name[];
int i;
name[1] = 'abc';
name[2] = 'def';
for (i = 1; name[i]; i++)
info(name[i]);
}
Beware that accessing a higher index (in this case higher than 2) may in fact increase the allocated size of the array.

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