Get the number of digits in an int

Question

How to detect the length of an integer? in case i had le: int test(234567545);

how do i know how long the int is? like telling me there is 9 numbers inside it???

i have tried :

char buffer_length[100];





    //  assign directly to a string.



    sprintf(buffer_length, "%d\n", 234567545);



    string sf = buffer_length;





    cout <<sf.length()-1 << endl;

but there most be a simpler way of doing it or more clean...

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Answer 1

How about division:

int length = 1;
int x = 234567545;
while ( x /= 10 )
   length++;

or use the log10 method from <math.h>.

Note that log10 returns a double, so you'll have to adjust the result.

Get the number of digits in an int

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