I'm looking to make a hex to octal convert in C, and right now I'm able to convert a string from hex to binary. Now I'm looking to convert it from binary to octal. I believe that this was the simplest way. This is what I have for now. It's a function being called in a main program. How do I go from now? I'm kind of stuck and any help would be great. Thanks in advance.
#include "my_lib_3.h"
#include <string.h>
#include "mrb_lib_1.h"
#include <math.h>
char *hex2octal(char s[]){
char input_string [20] = "";
//char return_string[50] = "";
int num, binary_val, decimal_val = 0, base = 1, rem;
printf("Enter a hex number:\n");
scanf("%s",input_string);
int i;
for (i=0; i<1; i++) {
switch(input_string[i]){
case '0' :
// strcat(return_string, "0000");
num = "0000";
break;
case '1' :
// strcat(return_string, "0001");
num = "0001";
break;
case '2' :
// strcat(return_string, "0010");
num = "0010";
break;
case '3':
// strcat(return_string, "0011");
num = "0011";
break;
case '4':
// strcat(return_string, "0100");
num = "0100";
break;
case '5':
// strcat(return_string, "0101");
num = "0101";
break;
case '6':
// strcat(return_string, "0110");
num = "0110";
break;
case '7':
// strcat(return_string, "0111");
num = "0111";
break;
case '8':
// strcat(return_string, "1000");
num = "1000";
break;
case '9':
// strcat(return_string, "1001");
num = "1001";
break;
case 'A':
// strcat(return_string, "1010");
num = "1010";
break;
case 'B':
// strcat(return_string, "1011");
num = "1011";
break;
case 'C':
// strcat(return_string, "1100");
num = "1100";
break;
case 'D':
// strcat(return_string, "1101");
num = "1101";
break;
case 'E':
// strcat(return_string, "1110");
num = "1110";
break;
case 'F':
// strcat(return_string, "1111");
num = "1111";
break;
default:
printf("Program doesn't support this yet\n");
break;
}
printf("The binary equivalent of %s is %s\n", input_string, num);
int z;
for (z = 0; return_string[z] != '\0'; z++) {
if(return_string[z] = '5'){
printf("%i",z);
printf("Yo!\n");
z++;
}
}
return 0;
}
char *octal2dec(char s[]){
}