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What is the meaning of this expression

I am trying to push a integer that is stored in a string to a stack of type int I was trying to do the same by using stack.push(str[i]) which resulted in some weird values in the final outcome

Github copilot suggeted to do it this way which was succesfull

else
       {
           temp.push(exp[i]-'0');
       }

what is the meaning of -'0' here

Solution

  • The char '0' has ascii value 0x30 (48 decimal).

    The char '9' has ascii value 0x39 (57 decimal).

    If you do '9' - '0' = 57 - 48 = 9.

    So you are converting a digit from its ascii number '9' = 57 to its numeric value 9.

    This is often used when fast-converting a string of integers to its numeric value.