anybody know an easy way to encode a base 10 number into base 26? Basically, I want to make a decimal number into the English alphabet: A-Z. I was hoping there was a simpler way than:
i=input_number output="" alphabet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" do while i>0 j=i//26 output=substr(alphabet,j+1,1)||output i=i%26 end output="A"||output output=strip(output,"L","A") /* strip leading "A"s */ if 0 = length(output) then output="A" -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
