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 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 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);
}
}