C Program to convert a Roman numeral to its decimal equivalent.

C Program to convert a Roman numeral to its decimal equivalent. Roman numbers are the oldest number system used in ancient Rome. They use the combination of letters from Latin alphabet to represent the system. We used the if-else and for statements to solve this problem. Read more about C Programming Language .

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

void main()
{

int *a,len,i,j,k;
char *rom;

clrscr();

printf("Enter the Roman Numeral:");
scanf("%s",rom);

len=strlen(rom);

for(i=0;i<len;i++)
{
if(rom[i]=='I')
a[i]=1;
else if(rom[i]=='V')
a[i]=5;
else if(rom[i]=='X')
a[i]=10;
else if(rom[i]=='L')
a[i]=50;
else if(rom[i]=='C')
a[i]=100;
else if(rom[i]=='D')
a[i]=500;
else if(rom[i]=='M')
a[i]=1000;
else
{
printf("nInvalid Value");
getch();
exit(0);
}
}
k=a[len-1];
for(i=len-1;i>0;i--)
{
if(a[i]>a[i-1])
k=k-a[i-1];
else if(a[i]==a[i-1] || a[i]<a[i-1])
k=k+a[i-1];
}
printf("nIts Decimal Equivalent is:");
printf("%d",k);
getch();
}
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