I am attempting to take two-digit integers representing day-of-month, split the digits into single digits by taking each character in the single digit and adding them together to form a new number.
e.g. If the value for day was an integer 29, then the program would turn that into strings and split them into '2' and '9'. The program would then turn 2 and 9 into integers and add them together to equal 11. Since this is still a double digit number, the program would loop and 1 and 1 would be added together and the final value that would print would be 2. According to the code below(mostly the last ~5 lines), if I enter day=29, then the final answer I keep getting is 4 which is incorrect. Can someone help me fix this:
Note someone mentioned that I didn't re-enter dayStringSum and I accidentally deleted their post am not sure what that means at all.
dayString = str(int(day))
# Turns value day into int
dayStringA = int(str(dayString[0]))
# If day=29 then this variable represents the 2...
dayStringB = int(str(dayString[1]))
# ...and this represents the 9
dayStringSum = (dayStringA + dayStringA)
while(dayStringSum >=10):
dayStringA = int(str(dayStringSum[0]))
# Since daystringsum is now 11, this code changes the value of daystringA into a new value of 1, likewise for below.
dayStringB = int(str(dayStringSum[1]))
print(dayStringSum)
dayStringSum is an integer, so dayStringSum[n] makes no sense. You'll want to turn it into a string first, and then look at its individual characters.
Also, you do not assign a new value to dayStringSum inside the while loop, so if it is >= 10 upon entering the loop, it will remain so, resulting in an infinite loop. You say that you got a final result of 4, but I fail to see how you would get a final result at all.
Try something like this:
daySum = int(day) # Ensure that day is an int before we start.
while(daySum >= 10):
newString = str(daySum)
dayIntA = int(newString[0])
dayIntB = int(newString[1])
daySum = dayIntA + dayIntB # Will be checked on next iteration.
print(daySum)