Need some maths help please! (RESOLVED)

This might sound pretty stupid, but I actually don't know WHAT to google to get a simple answer, so hopefully you guys can help me out :slight_smile: I bet it's one of those things that's really obvious once I know, but I'm hungover and my brain's not firing on all cylinders... hehe

Anyway, let's say I have a 4 digit number for example 1234. I want to split this up into thousands, hundreds, tens and units across 4 variables, ending up with each one holding a value of 0-9 so I can then push these out to my 7-segment module.

There MUST be a nice neat operation to do this, but hell if I can find it :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks in advance for the help!

EDIT: Here's the code I'm fiddling with, it should be apparent what I'm trying to accomplish.

int CLK = 10;
int SIN = 11;
int LAT = 12;

byte digitData[10] = {
  0x3F, 0x6, 0x5B, 0x4F, 0x66, 0x6D, 0x7D, 0x7, 0x7F, 0x67
};

// Array to hold segment patterns for digits 0 - 9


void setup () {
  
  pinMode(CLK, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(SIN, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LAT, OUTPUT);
  
  
}



void loop () {
  
  while(1) {
  
unsigned long time = (millis() / 1000);

int D0 = time ?????????????

int D1 = time ?????????????

int D2 = time ?????????????

int D3 = time ?????????????


  
  digitalWrite(LAT, LOW);
  shiftOut(SIN, CLK, MSBFIRST, digitData[D0]);
 
  shiftOut(SIN, CLK, MSBFIRST, digitData[D1]);

  shiftOut(SIN, CLK, MSBFIRST, digitData[D2]);

  shiftOut(SIN, CLK, MSBFIRST, digitData[D3]);
  digitalWrite(LAT, HIGH);
  
  
  }
  
  
  
    
}

I think you just need to use integer division and modulo division (remainder) like so:

int number = 1234;
int d1, d2, d3, d4;
int working;

d1 = number / 1000; // Gives 1 in this example
working = number % 1000; // Gives 234 in this example
d2 = working / 100; // Gives 2 in this example
working = working % 100; // Gives 34 in this example
d3 = working / 10; // Gives 3 in this example
d4 = working % 10; // Gives 4 in this example

That looks like exactly what I need! Thanks, I'll play with it now. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to format the damn statements to do what I want.

Lifesaver! 8)

The search term is "AVR BCD conversion".

Noted for future reference, Marek. I really am amazed how much of a n00b I can be sometimes, I'm sure I've actually used that stuff in my old BASIC programming days :roll_eyes:

Anyway, code works now... counting up like a beauty :smiley: