Golang number base conversion - go

I was wondering, how do you convert a base10 number from one base to another without usage of strconv in Golang ?
Could you please give me some advice ?

package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/big"
)
func main() {
fmt.Println(big.NewInt(1000000000000).Text(62))
}
Demo

Use the math package and a log identify:
log_77(x) = log(x) / log(77)

This is probably cheating but I guess you could look at the implementation of strconv.FormatInt, and build some of your own code using that as an example. That way you aren't using it directly, you have implemented it yourself.

You can use this function to convert any decimal number to any base with the character set of your choice.
func encode(nb uint64, buf *bytes.Buffer, base string) {
l := uint64(len(base))
if nb/l != 0 {
encode(nb/l, buf, base)
}
buf.WriteByte(base[nb%l])
}
func decode(enc, base string) uint64 {
var nb uint64
lbase := len(base)
le := len(enc)
for i := 0; i < le; i++ {
mult := 1
for j := 0; j < le-i-1; j++ {
mult *= lbase
}
nb += uint64(strings.IndexByte(base, enc[i]) * mult)
}
return nb
}
You can use it like that:
// encoding
var buf bytes.Buffer
encode(100, &buf, "0123456789abcdef")
fmt.Println(buf.String())
// 64
// decoding
val := decode("64", "0123456789abcdef")
fmt.Println(val)
// 100

Related

Convert a 2^8 bit representation to a BigInteger on Go

I have the following code snippet here that I want to convert to Go.
BigInteger b = BigInteger.ZERO;
for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
b = b.add(BigInteger.ONE.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(bytes[i] & 0xff)).shiftLeft(i * 8));
}
return b;
My converted code to Go below:
//return utils.BytesToBigInteger(bytes)
b := BigInteger_ZERO()
for i, val := range bytes {
el := (&big.Int{}).SetUint64(uint64(uint8(val & 0xff))) // & 0xff)
one := BigInteger_ONE()
one = one.Mul(one, el)
b = b.Add(b, el.Lsh(el, uint(i*8)))
}
return b
It seems that the result is still not consistent though. Am I missing something?
Attempting to convert code from one language to another is rarely a good idea. Write the function in Go. For example,
package main
import (
"fmt"
"math"
"math/big"
)
func BytesToBigInteger(b []byte) *big.Int {
return new(big.Int).SetBytes(b)
}
func main() {
b := []byte{1, 1}
i := BytesToBigInteger(b)
fmt.Println(i, uint16(1<<8+1))
b = []byte{255, 255, 255, 255}
i = BytesToBigInteger(b)
fmt.Println(i, uint32(math.MaxUint32))
}
Playground: https://play.golang.org/p/LWzDtr2pkom
Output:
257 257
4294967295 4294967295

Convert int32 to string in Golang

I need to convert an int32 to string in Golang. Is it possible to convert int32 to string in Golang without converting to int or int64 first?
Itoa needs an int. FormatInt needs an int64.
One line answer is fmt.Sprint(i).
Anyway there are many conversions, even inside standard library function like fmt.Sprint(i), so you have some options (try The Go Playground):
1- You may write your conversion function (Fastest):
func String(n int32) string {
buf := [11]byte{}
pos := len(buf)
i := int64(n)
signed := i < 0
if signed {
i = -i
}
for {
pos--
buf[pos], i = '0'+byte(i%10), i/10
if i == 0 {
if signed {
pos--
buf[pos] = '-'
}
return string(buf[pos:])
}
}
}
2- You may use fmt.Sprint(i) (Slow)
See inside:
// Sprint formats using the default formats for its operands and returns the resulting string.
// Spaces are added between operands when neither is a string.
func Sprint(a ...interface{}) string {
p := newPrinter()
p.doPrint(a)
s := string(p.buf)
p.free()
return s
}
3- You may use strconv.Itoa(int(i)) (Fast)
See inside:
// Itoa is shorthand for FormatInt(int64(i), 10).
func Itoa(i int) string {
return FormatInt(int64(i), 10)
}
4- You may use strconv.FormatInt(int64(i), 10) (Faster)
See inside:
// FormatInt returns the string representation of i in the given base,
// for 2 <= base <= 36. The result uses the lower-case letters 'a' to 'z'
// for digit values >= 10.
func FormatInt(i int64, base int) string {
_, s := formatBits(nil, uint64(i), base, i < 0, false)
return s
}
Comparison & Benchmark (with 50000000 iterations):
s = String(i) takes: 5.5923198s
s = String2(i) takes: 5.5923199s
s = strconv.FormatInt(int64(i), 10) takes: 5.9133382s
s = strconv.Itoa(int(i)) takes: 5.9763418s
s = fmt.Sprint(i) takes: 13.5697761s
Code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
//"strconv"
"time"
)
func main() {
var s string
i := int32(-2147483648)
t := time.Now()
for j := 0; j < 50000000; j++ {
s = String(i) //5.5923198s
//s = String2(i) //5.5923199s
//s = strconv.FormatInt(int64(i), 10) // 5.9133382s
//s = strconv.Itoa(int(i)) //5.9763418s
//s = fmt.Sprint(i) // 13.5697761s
}
fmt.Println(time.Since(t))
fmt.Println(s)
}
func String(n int32) string {
buf := [11]byte{}
pos := len(buf)
i := int64(n)
signed := i < 0
if signed {
i = -i
}
for {
pos--
buf[pos], i = '0'+byte(i%10), i/10
if i == 0 {
if signed {
pos--
buf[pos] = '-'
}
return string(buf[pos:])
}
}
}
func String2(n int32) string {
buf := [11]byte{}
pos := len(buf)
i, q := int64(n), int64(0)
signed := i < 0
if signed {
i = -i
}
for {
pos--
q = i / 10
buf[pos], i = '0'+byte(i-10*q), q
if i == 0 {
if signed {
pos--
buf[pos] = '-'
}
return string(buf[pos:])
}
}
}
The Sprint function converts a given value to string.
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func main() {
var sampleInt int32 = 1
sampleString := fmt.Sprint(sampleInt)
fmt.Printf("%+V %+V\n", sampleInt, sampleString)
}
// %!V(int32=+1) %!V(string=1)
See this example.
Use a conversion and strconv.FormatInt to format int32 values as a string. The conversion has zero cost on most platforms.
s := strconv.FormatInt(int64(n), 10)
If you have many calls like this, consider writing a helper function similar to strconv.Itoa:
func formatInt32(n int32) string {
return strconv.FormatInt(int64(n), 10)
}
All of the low-level integer formatting code in the standard library works with int64 values. Any answer to this question using formatting code in the standard library (fmt package included) requires a conversion to int64 somewhere. The only way to avoid the conversion is to write formatting function from scratch, but there's little point in doing that.
func FormatInt32(value int32) string {
return fmt.Sprintf("%d", value)
}
Does this work?

Read n integers / float / string from standard input

Algorithm competition have questions that provide the input in multiple lines, with the first line specifying the count of the inputs. Example -
3
78
42
99
The first line tells that there will be 3 integers followed by the three integers.
Currently, I have the following code to read them -
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
var num []int
var input int
var count int
fmt.Scanf("%d", &count)
for {
if (count == 0) {
break
}
fmt.Scanf("%d", &input)
num = append(num, input)
count--
}
}
Is there a better way to carry this out? The above approach feels clumsy for some reason.
This code pushes everything into the loop header, as well as puts input into the most local scope possible. You should be checking the error returned by Scanf too:
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
var num []int
var count int
var err error
for _, err = fmt.Scanf("%d\n", &count); err == nil && count > 0; count-- {
var input int
_, err = fmt.Scanf("%d\n", &input)
num = append(num, input)
}
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
There are about a million ways to write equivalent code, this seemed the best to me. An argument could be made for putting the error check in the loop before the append, but since encountering an error presumably invalidates the list, I thought it looked prettier this way.
package main
import (
"bufio"
"os"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
a:= read(reader,100000)
fmt.Println(a)
}
func read (reader *bufio.Reader, n int)([]uint32) {
a := make([]uint32, n)
for i:=0; i<n; i++ {
fmt.Fscan(reader, &a[i])
}
return a
}

Convert an integer to a byte array

I have a function which receives a []byte but what I have is an int, what is the best way to go about this conversion ?
err = a.Write([]byte(myInt))
I guess I could go the long way and get it into a string and put that into bytes, but it sounds ugly and I guess there are better ways to do it.
I agree with Brainstorm's approach: assuming that you're passing a machine-friendly binary representation, use the encoding/binary library. The OP suggests that binary.Write() might have some overhead. Looking at the source for the implementation of Write(), I see that it does some runtime decisions for maximum flexibility.
func Write(w io.Writer, order ByteOrder, data interface{}) error {
// Fast path for basic types.
var b [8]byte
var bs []byte
switch v := data.(type) {
case *int8:
bs = b[:1]
b[0] = byte(*v)
case int8:
bs = b[:1]
b[0] = byte(v)
case *uint8:
bs = b[:1]
b[0] = *v
...
Right? Write() takes in a very generic data third argument, and that's imposing some overhead as the Go runtime then is forced into encoding type information. Since Write() is doing some runtime decisions here that you simply don't need in your situation, maybe you can just directly call the encoding functions and see if it performs better.
Something like this:
package main
import (
"encoding/binary"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
bs := make([]byte, 4)
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(bs, 31415926)
fmt.Println(bs)
}
Let us know how this performs.
Otherwise, if you're just trying to get an ASCII representation of the integer, you can get the string representation (probably with strconv.Itoa) and cast that string to the []byte type.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"strconv"
)
func main() {
bs := []byte(strconv.Itoa(31415926))
fmt.Println(bs)
}
Check out the "encoding/binary" package. Particularly the Read and Write functions:
binary.Write(a, binary.LittleEndian, myInt)
Sorry, this might be a bit late. But I think I found a better implementation on the go docs.
buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
var num uint16 = 1234
err := binary.Write(buf, binary.LittleEndian, num)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("binary.Write failed:", err)
}
fmt.Printf("% x", buf.Bytes())
i thought int type has any method for getting int hash to bytes, but first i find math / big method for this
https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/
var f int = 52452356235; // int
var s = big.NewInt(int64(f)) // int to big Int
var b = s.Bytes() // big Int to bytes
// b - byte slise
var r = big.NewInt(0).SetBytes(b) // bytes to big Int
var i int = int(r.Int64()) // big Int to int
https://play.golang.org/p/VAKSGw8XNQq
However, this method uses an absolute value.
If you spend 1 byte more, you can transfer the sign
func IntToBytes(i int) []byte{
if i > 0 {
return append(big.NewInt(int64(i)).Bytes(), byte(1))
}
return append(big.NewInt(int64(i)).Bytes(), byte(0))
}
func BytesToInt(b []byte) int{
if b[len(b)-1]==0 {
return -int(big.NewInt(0).SetBytes(b[:len(b)-1]).Int64())
}
return int(big.NewInt(0).SetBytes(b[:len(b)-1]).Int64())
}
https://play.golang.org/p/mR5Sp5hu4jk
or new(https://play.golang.org/p/7ZAK4QL96FO)
(The package also provides functions for fill into an existing slice)
https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/#Int.FillBytes
Adding this option for dealing with basic uint8 to byte[] conversion
foo := 255 // 1 - 255
ufoo := uint16(foo)
far := []byte{0,0}
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(far, ufoo)
bar := int(far[0]) // back to int
fmt.Println("foo, far, bar : ",foo,far,bar)
output :
foo, far, bar : 255 [255 0] 255
Here is another option, based on the Go source code [1]:
package main
import (
"encoding/binary"
"fmt"
"math/bits"
)
func encodeUint(x uint64) []byte {
buf := make([]byte, 8)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(buf, x)
return buf[bits.LeadingZeros64(x) >> 3:]
}
func main() {
for x := 0; x <= 64; x += 8 {
buf := encodeUint(1<<x-1)
fmt.Println(buf)
}
}
Result:
[]
[255]
[255 255]
[255 255 255]
[255 255 255 255]
[255 255 255 255 255]
[255 255 255 255 255 255]
[255 255 255 255 255 255 255]
[255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255]
Much faster than math/big:
BenchmarkBig-12 28348621 40.62 ns/op
BenchmarkBit-12 731601145 1.641 ns/op
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.16.5/src/encoding/gob/encode.go#L113-L117
You can try musgo_int. All you need to do is to cast your variable:
package main
import (
"github.com/ymz-ncnk/musgo_int"
)
func main() {
var myInt int = 1234
// from int to []byte
buf := make([]byte, musgo_int.Int(myInt).SizeMUS())
musgo_int.Int(myInt).MarshalMUS(buf)
// from []byte to int
_, err := (*musgo_int.Int)(&myInt).UnmarshalMUS(buf)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
Convert Integer to byte slice.
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/binary"
"log"
)
func IntToBytes(num int64) []byte {
buff := new(bytes.Buffer)
bigOrLittleEndian := binary.BigEndian
err := binary.Write(buff, bigOrLittleEndian, num)
if err != nil {
log.Panic(err)
}
return buff.Bytes()
}
Maybe the simple way is using protobuf, see the Protocol Buffer Basics: Go
define message like
message MyData {
int32 id = 1;
}
get more in Defining your protocol format
// Write
out, err := proto.Marshal(mydata)
read more in Writing a Message
Try math/big package to convert bytes array to int and to convert int to bytes array.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/big"
)
func main() {
// Convert int to []byte
var int_to_encode int64 = 65535
var bytes_array []byte = big.NewInt(int_to_encode).Bytes()
fmt.Println("bytes array", bytes_array)
// Convert []byte to int
var decoded_int int64 = new(big.Int).SetBytes(bytes_array).Int64()
fmt.Println("decoded int", decoded_int)
}
This is the most straight forward (and shortest (and safest) (and maybe most performant)) way:
buf.Bytes() is of type bytes slice.
var val uint32 = 42
buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
err := binary.Write(buf, binary.LittleEndian, val)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("binary.Write failed:", err)
}
fmt.Printf("% x\n", buf.Bytes())
see also https://stackoverflow.com/a/74819602/589493
What's wrong with converting it to a string?
[]byte(fmt.Sprintf("%d", myint))

bytewise compare varint encoded int64's

I'm using levigo, the leveldb bindings for Go. My keys are int64's and need to be kept sorted. By default, leveldb uses a bytewise comparator so I'm trying to use varint encoding.
func i2b(x int64) []byte {
b := make([]byte, binary.MaxVarintLen64)
n := binary.PutVarint(b, x)
return key[:n]
}
My keys are not being sorted correctly. I wrote the following as a test.
var prev int64 = 0
for i := int64(1); i < 1e5; i++ {
if bytes.Compare(i2b(i), i2b(prev)) <= 0 {
log.Fatalf("bytewise: %d > %d", b2i(prev), i)
}
prev = i
}
output: bytewise: 127 > 128
playground
I'm not sure where the problem is. Am I doing the encoding wrong? Is varint not the right encoding to use?
EDIT:
BigEndian fixed width encoding is bytewise comparable
func i2b(x int64) []byte {
b := make([]byte, 8)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(b, uint64(x))
return b
}
The varint encoding is not bytewise comparable* wrt to the order of the values it caries. One option how to write the ordering/collating function (cmp bellow) is for example:
package main
import (
"encoding/binary"
"log"
)
func i2b(x int64) []byte {
var b [binary.MaxVarintLen64]byte
return b[:binary.PutVarint(b[:], x)]
}
func cmp(a, b []byte) int64 {
x, n := binary.Varint(a)
if n < 0 {
log.Fatal(n)
}
y, n := binary.Varint(b)
if n < 0 {
log.Fatal(n)
}
return x - y
}
func main() {
var prev int64 = 0
for i := int64(1); i < 1e5; i++ {
if cmp(i2b(i), i2b(prev)) <= 0 {
log.Fatal("fail")
}
prev = i
}
}
Playground
(*) The reason is (also) the bit fiddling performed.

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