Modulo in JavaScript - large number

Question

I try to calculate with JS\' modulo function, but don\'t get the right result (which should be 1). Here is a hardcoded piece of code.

var checkSum = 21050170         


        

Answer 1

A bunch of improvements to Benedikt's version: "cRest += '' + cDivident;" is a bugfix; parseInt(divisor) makes it possible to pass both arguments as strings; check for empty string at the end makes it always return numerical values; added var statements so it's not using global variables; converted foreach to old-style for so it works in browsers with older Javascript; fixed the cRest == 0; bug (thanks @Dan.StackOverflow).

function modulo (divident, divisor) {
    var cDivident = '';
    var cRest = '';

    for (var i in divident ) {
        var cChar = divident[i];
        var cOperator = cRest + '' + cDivident + '' + cChar;

        if ( cOperator < parseInt(divisor) ) {
                cDivident += '' + cChar;
        } else {
                cRest = cOperator % divisor;
                if ( cRest == 0 ) {
                    cRest = '';
                }
                cDivident = '';
        }

    }
    cRest += '' + cDivident;
    if (cRest == '') {
        cRest = 0;
    }
    return cRest;
}