Check if input is integer type in C

Question

The catch is that I cannot use atoi or any other function like that (I'm pretty sure we're supposed to rely on mathematical operations).

 int num; 
 scanf("%d",&num);
 if(/* num is not integer */) {
  printf("enter integer");
  return;
 }

I've tried:

(num*2)/2 == num
num%1==0
if(scanf("%d",&num)!=1)

but none of these worked.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This is a more user-friendly one I guess :

#include<stdio.h>

/* This program checks if the entered input is an integer
 * or provides an option for the user to re-enter.
 */

int getint()
{
  int x;
  char c;
  printf("\nEnter an integer (say -1 or 26 or so ): ");
  while( scanf("%d",&x) != 1 )
  {
    c=getchar();

    printf("You have entered ");
    putchar(c);
    printf(" in the input which is not an integer");

    while ( getchar() != '\n' )
     ; //wasting the buffer till the next new line

    printf("\nEnter an integer (say -1 or 26 or so ): ");

  }

return x;
}


int main(void)
{
  int x;
  x=getint();

  printf("Main Function =>\n");
  printf("Integer : %d\n",x);

 return 0;
}

Answer 2

I've been searching for a simpler solution using only loops and if statements, and this is what I came up with. The program also works with negative integers and correctly rejects any mixed inputs that may contain both integers and other characters.

---

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> // Used for atoi() function
#include <string.h> // Used for strlen() function

#define TRUE 1
#define FALSE 0

int main(void)
{
    char n[10]; // Limits characters to the equivalent of the 32 bits integers limit (10 digits)
    int intTest;
    printf("Give me an int: ");

    do
    {        
        scanf(" %s", n);

        intTest = TRUE; // Sets the default for the integer test variable to TRUE

        int i = 0, l = strlen(n);
        if (n[0] == '-') // Tests for the negative sign to correctly handle negative integer values
            i++;
        while (i < l)
        {            
            if (n[i] < '0' || n[i] > '9') // Tests the string characters for non-integer values
            {              
                intTest = FALSE; // Changes intTest variable from TRUE to FALSE and breaks the loop early
                break;
            }
            i++;
        }
        if (intTest == TRUE)
            printf("%i\n", atoi(n)); // Converts the string to an integer and prints the integer value
        else
            printf("Retry: "); // Prints "Retry:" if tested FALSE
    }
    while (intTest == FALSE); // Continues to ask the user to input a valid integer value
    return 0;
}

Answer 3

You need to read your input as a string first, then parse the string to see if it contains valid numeric characters. If it does then you can convert it to an integer.

char s[MAX_LINE];

valid = FALSE;
fgets(s, sizeof(s), stdin);
len = strlen(s);
while (len > 0 && isspace(s[len - 1]))
    len--;     // strip trailing newline or other white space
if (len > 0)
{
    valid = TRUE;
    for (i = 0; i < len; ++i)
    {
        if (!isdigit(s[i]))
        {
            valid = FALSE;
            break;
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

printf("type a number ");
int converted = scanf("%d", &a);
printf("\n");

if( converted == 0) 
{
    printf("enter integer");
    system("PAUSE \n");
    return 0;
}

scanf() returns the number of format specifiers that match, so will return zero if the text entered cannot be interpreted as a decimal integer

Answer 5

I was having the same problem, finally figured out what to do:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main ()
{
    int x;
    float check;
    reprocess:
    printf ("enter a integer number:");
    scanf ("%f", &check);
    x=check;
    if (x==check)
    printf("\nYour number is %d", x);
    else 
    {
         printf("\nThis is not an integer number, please insert an integer!\n\n");
         goto reprocess;
    }
    _getch();
    return 0;
}

Answer 6

Try this...

#include <stdio.h>

int main (void)
{
    float a;
    int q;

    printf("\nInsert number\t");
    scanf("%f",&a);

    q=(int)a;
    ++q;

    if((q - a) != 1)
        printf("\nThe number is not an integer\n\n");
    else
        printf("\nThe number is an integer\n\n");

    return 0;
}