[Mono-dev] Oddity in C#

[Alan McGovern]

The MSDN documentation for "Read" might help here...

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console.read.aspx

What you'll need to do is read in the console input as a string and use
Convert.ToInt32() (or whatever) to get the input value.

Alan.

On 6/28/07, Paul F. Johnson <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Got a bit of a strange one which I'm not sure about. Below is a bit of
> code
> I'm playing with...
>
> namespace bitcount
> {
>   public bitcount
>   {
>      private uint BitCounter(uint u)
>      {
>         uint uCount;
>         uCount = u - ((u >> 1) & 033333333333) - ((u >> 2) &
> 011111111111);
>         return (uCount + (uCount >> 3) & 030707070707 % 63;
>      }
>
>      public static void Main
>      {
>        bitcount bc = new bitcount();
>        uint number;
>        Console.WriteLine("Please enter a number ");
>        number = Console.Read();
>        number = BitCounter(number);
>        Console.WriteLine(number);
>        Console.ReadKey();
>      }
>    }
> }
>
> Okay, it won't compile (Read is static int for a start), but the oddest
> piece
> of the puzzle is that the uint variables cause problems when I try to
> compile
> (casting). If I change everything to long, the value returned is incorrect
> (if
> you re-write this in C or C++ and enter 85, it returns 2, in C# it returns
> 33).
>
> Any clues as to why this behaviour is seen? It makes no difference if I
> target
> mono or VS.NET.
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
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