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Converting string of 1s and 0s into binary value

I would like to convert a binary string to an integer string in c++. e.g:

"000000000010" becomes "2"

I have the following constraint: i can not convert this string to an integer type and then convert it again to string because that binary string can be very huge!

I already tried to do it with stringstream, inserting the binary string to it with the flag std::stringstream::binary and then output the content using the std::dec flag, but it doesn’t work

Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

You could go about it like this:

• create a new output string, containing “0”
• for each character of the (reversed) original string:
  • multiply the result by 2 (digit by digit, taking care of the carry)
  • if the digit is a '1', add 1 to the result (as above)
• reverse the result (use std::reverse)