Question

I was working around with bitset, and so i was wondering what would be the best way to convert a base-10 to base-2, because for some reason i get the wrong answer:
giving the number 19, i’d expect to see:
10011 (16-2-1), why does it output (00011)

#include <iostream>
#include <bitset>

using namespace std;

int main() {

    bitset<sizeof(int)> temp(19);
    for (int x = 4; x>=0;x--) 
        cout << temp[x];
    cout << endl;
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

There were a bug in your code. You can’t access element at index 4 since the size of bitset was 4 due to the fact that sizeof( int ) yielded 4, which only allows accessing from 0-3. As for your question, the template argument within the <> brackets is the size of bitset. In your case, 19 is represented with more than 4 bits, hence the result was truncated. Change the argument to 5, you should get the expected result. By the way, bitset already overloaded operator <<, so you don’t actually need to traverse the whole array to output the result.
This should do the job:

#include <iostream>
#include <bitset>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    bitset<5> temp(19);
    cout << temp;
    return 0;
}