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I am just programming this kind of thing, and was wondering I according to
c++ language it is always guaranteed that
'5'-'0' = 5. Character calculations. Because character should be in order
isnt it? Is it guaranteed that they are in order and the difference is 1?

* crea, on 19.05.2011 21:13:
> I am just programming this kind of thing, and was wondering I according to
> c++ language it is always guaranteed that
> '5'-'0' = 5. Character calculations. Because character should be in order
> isnt it? Is it guaranteed that they are in order and the difference is 1?

Yes.

But that does not hold for letters (which are discontiguous in EBCDIC, which the
C++ standard "must" support).


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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"Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach+> wrote in
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>* crea, on 19.05.2011 21:13:
>> I am just programming this kind of thing, and was wondering I according
>> to
>> c++ language it is always guaranteed that
>> '5'-'0' = 5. Character calculations. Because character should be in order
>> isnt it? Is it guaranteed that they are in order and the difference is 1?
>
> Yes.
>
> But that does not hold for letters (which are discontiguous in EBCDIC,
> which the C++ standard "must" support).
>

ok, good to know also the letter-thing.

On 5/19/2011 12:35 PM, crea wrote:
> "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet"<alf.p.steinbach+> wrote in
> message news:ir3qlq$a84$...
>> * crea, on 19.05.2011 21:13:
>>> I am just programming this kind of thing, and was wondering I according
>>> to
>>> c++ language it is always guaranteed that
>>> '5'-'0' = 5. Character calculations. Because character should be in order
>>> isnt it? Is it guaranteed that they are in order and the difference is 1?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> But that does not hold for letters (which are discontiguous in EBCDIC,
>> which the C++ standard "must" support).
>>
>
> ok, good to know also the letter-thing.
>
>

He's wrong actually. It's a really good bet, but by no means guaranteed.

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Noah Roberts <> writes:
>He's wrong actually. It's a really good bet, but by no means guaranteed.

Then how for any digit character c, the expression
(do_narrow(c,dfault)-'0') evaluates to the digit value of
the character? (according to ISO/IEC 14882:2003(E)
22.2.1.1.2 char do_narrow(charT c, char dfault) const,
Effects)

On 5/19/2011 3:58 PM, Noah Roberts wrote:
> On 5/19/2011 12:35 PM, crea wrote:
>> "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet"<alf.p.steinbach+> wrote in
>> message news:ir3qlq$a84$...
>>> * crea, on 19.05.2011 21:13:
>>>> I am just programming this kind of thing, and was wondering I according
>>>> to
>>>> c++ language it is always guaranteed that
>>>> '5'-'0' = 5. Character calculations. Because character should be in
>>>> order
>>>> isnt it? Is it guaranteed that they are in order and the difference
>>>> is 1?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> But that does not hold for letters (which are discontiguous in EBCDIC,
>>> which the C++ standard "must" support).
>>>
>>
>> ok, good to know also the letter-thing.
>>
>>
>
> He's wrong actually. It's a really good bet, but by no means guaranteed.

No, he is not. Read [lex.charset]/3. Carefully.

V
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"Pete Becker" <> wrote in message
news:2011051916213466006-pete@versatilecodingcom...
> On 2011-05-19 15:58:29 -0400, Noah Roberts said:
>>>
>>> ok, good to know also the letter-thing.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> He's wrong actually. It's a really good bet, but by no means guaranteed.
>
> The character representations of the digits 0-9 are required to be
> contiguous and in ascending order. And there's no similar requirement for
> any other characters.
>

Thanks guys, good info which would be difficult to find from books (well,
maybe google would help but this is not something which is told in schools
or books) - yes, they use it sometimes, but I never read that its
"guaranteed to work" which I really need to know.

* Stefan Ram, on 19.05.2011 22:09:
> Noah Roberts<> writes:
>> He's wrong actually. It's a really good bet, but by no means guaranteed.
>
> Then how for any digit character c, the expression
> (do_narrow(c,dfault)-'0') evaluates to the digit value of
> the character? (according to ISO/IEC 14882:2003(E)
> 22.2.1.1.2 char do_narrow(charT c, char dfault) const,
> Effects)

Noah is in my killfile so I don't see his article. And he knows that. And
needless to say, Noah's public insinuation that I was guessing, knowing full
well that I don't see his article, is just what one can expect from him.

If you want to check out the formal it's at the very start of the standard
somewhere .

You can download the latest draft (of the next standard) from the committee pages.


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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