How to Convert NSInteger or NSString to a binary (string) value

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Anybody has some code in objective-c to convert a NSInteger or NSString to binary string?

example:

56 -> 111000

There are some code in stackoverflow that try do this, but it doesn´t work.

Thanks

Just a note, 111000 is technically a negative number if you're using 2's complement. 0111000 is positive (because of the leading 0) — Dave DeLong
– Dave DeLong, Commented Dec 15, 2009 at 17:38

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:24:37Z

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Not sure which examples on SO didn't work for you, but Adam Rosenfield's answer here seems to work. I've updated it to remove a compiler warning:

// Original author Adam Rosenfield... SO Question 655792
NSInteger theNumber = 56;
NSMutableString *str = [NSMutableString string];
for(NSInteger numberCopy = theNumber; numberCopy > 0; numberCopy >>= 1)
{
    // Prepend "0" or "1", depending on the bit
    [str insertString:((numberCopy & 1) ? @"1" : @"0") atIndex:0];
}

NSLog(@"Binary version: %@", str);

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Dave DeLong · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-15 17:37:23Z

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Tooting my own horn a bit here...

I've written a math framework called CHMath that deals with arbitrarily large integers. One of the things it does is allows the user to create a CHNumber from a string, and get its binary representation as a string. For example:

CHNumber * t = [CHNumber numberWithString:@"56"];
NSString * binaryT = [t binaryStringValue];
NSLog(@"Binary value of %@: %@", t, binaryT);

Logs:

2009-12-15 10:36:10.595 otest-x86_64[21918:903] Binary value of 56: 0111000

The framework is freely available on its Github repository.

answered Dec 15, 2009 at 17:37

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