Hello all,

   I have a Cocoa app that performs some computations on
large integers (but still in the "unsigned long long" range), some
of which are entered by the user in a NSTextField.

  The problem , of course, is that NSControl has no
 -(unsigned long long)unsignedLongLongValue method, and
as specified in the documentation, if the user writes too many digits
the -(int)intValue method just returns UINT_MAX.

   It seems logical to deal with this problem by calling the
-(NSString*)stringValue method of NSControl, and implementing
a  -(unsigned long long)unsignedLongLongValue method for
NSString.

   This is what I did in my project, using the code below. I can't
help feeling that this code is dirty because it relies on the character
for the "j" digit being indexed as unichar number j+48. Can anyone
tell me what would be the clean way to do this ?

                                                                              
TIA,

                                                                                
     Ewan

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/* contents of NSString_UnsignedLongLongValue.h */

extern int const GGCharacterIsNotADigit;

@interface NSString (UnsignedLongLongValue)
     +(unsigned)digitValue: (unichar) c;
      -(unsigned long long)unsignedLongLongValue;
@end

/* contents of NSString_UnsignedLongLongValue.m */

@implementation NSString (UnsignedLongLongValue)

int const GGCharacterIsNotADigit=10;

+(unsigned)digitValue: (unichar) c
{

   if ((c>47)&&(c<58)) {
        return (c-48);
   }
   return GGCharacterIsNotADigit;

+(unsigned long long)unsignedLongLongValue
{
    unsigned n=[self length];
        unsigned long long v,a;
        unsigned small_a,j;
        v=0;
        for (j=0;j<n;j++) {
              unichar c=[self characterAtIndex:j];
              small_a=[self digitValue:c];
                  if (small_a==GGCharacterIsNotADigit) continue;
                  a=(unsigned long long)small_a;
                  v=(10*v)+a;
        }
        return v;

}



@end




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