I need a small advice in codechef long challenge January encoding the string.

Question

I have wrote most of the program but there is a small bug when there is more than 4 nos. i.e. 8 or more ,it encodes the first four nos. correctly but prints the same value for the next 4 nos.I have incremented the value of i after for loop by 4 so that it starts from the next four nos. But in the end I am getting same answer as the previous one. I have been looking at it all day and I wouldn't have asked if there was no other way.pls share some advice.

Answer 1

Will need to see your code

Answer 2

I solved it but there is still a small bug

Answer 3

Ok but can't help without code

Answer 4

for(int y=0;y<z;y++)
        {
            int p=0,j=4, l=8,mid=8;
            for(int i=p;i<j;i++)
            {
                if(mid==1)
                    mid=1;
                else
                    mid=mid/2;
                if(a[i]=='0')
                    l=l-mid; //8-4,4-2,2-1
                else
                    l=l+mid;
            }
            if(l>=1)
                l--;
            cout<<ar[l];
            p=p+4;
            j=j+4;
        }
        cout<<"\n";
    }

Answer 5

The bug is happening here

Answer 6

The value of p and j is not getting incremented