ok so I'm trying to do a Huffman encoding/decoding project atm. I have all of the compression working and tried to put the bitstring as a byte onto an output file. So I made a sample code to test with a small example to see how that would work. With code below I can correctly output the first 8 bits ("11100011") but then second time around I get 16 bits ("110001010101010"). Could someone hint where I went wrong? Thank you very much ahead of time.
Given: string bitstring = "11100011110001010101010"; unsigned char byte = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < bitstring.length(); i += 8){
string stringof8 = "";
if (i + 8 < bitstring.length()){
stringof8 = bitstring.substr(i, 8);
cout << stringof8 << endl;
}
else{
stringof8 = bitstring.substr(i);
cout << stringof8 << endl;
}
}
system("pause");
also I'm using visual studio.
*EDIT: Fixed
Check the definition of the substr parameters. Is the second parameter position or length?