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public static int toChars(int number, char chars[])
//package com.java2s; /*// w ww .j ava 2 s. c o m * Copyright (C) ${year} Omry Yadan <${email}> * All rights reserved. * * See https://github.com/omry/banana/blob/master/BSD-LICENSE for licensing information */ public class Main { static char min_value[] = "-2147483648".toCharArray(); /** * All possible chars for representing a number as a String */ final static char[] digits = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z' }; final static char[] DigitTens = { '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '4', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '7', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '8', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', '9', }; final static char[] DigitOnes = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', }; final static int[] sizeTable = { 9, 99, 999, 9999, 99999, 999999, 9999999, 99999999, 999999999, Integer.MAX_VALUE }; public static int toChars(int number, char chars[]) { if (number == Integer.MIN_VALUE) { System.arraycopy(min_value, 0, chars, 0, min_value.length); return min_value.length; } int size = (number < 0) ? stringSize(-number) + 1 : stringSize(number); getChars(number, size, chars); return size; } static int stringSize(int x) { for (int i = 0;; i++) if (x <= sizeTable[i]) return i + 1; } /** * Places characters representing the integer i into the character array buf. * The characters are placed into the buffer backwards starting with the least * significant digit at the specified index (exclusive), and working backwards * from there. * * Will fail if i == Integer.MIN_VALUE */ static void getChars(int i, int index, char[] buf) { int q, r; int charPos = index; char sign = 0; if (i < 0) { sign = '-'; i = -i; } // Generate two digits per iteration while (i >= 65536) { q = i / 100; // really: r = i - (q * 100); r = i - ((q << 6) + (q << 5) + (q << 2)); i = q; buf[--charPos] = DigitOnes[r]; buf[--charPos] = DigitTens[r]; } // Fall thru to fast mode for smaller numbers // assert(i <= 65536, i); for (;;) { q = (i * 52429) >>> (16 + 3); r = i - ((q << 3) + (q << 1)); // r = i-(q*10) ... buf[--charPos] = digits[r]; i = q; if (i == 0) break; } if (sign != 0) { buf[--charPos] = sign; } } }