This was an attempt to see how small I could make a decoder of base-26
numbers, encoded in ASCII uppercase. Answer: 58 characters. Can this
be improved?
/* Code golf, from
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/brsd0/use_the_right_tool_for_the_job/c0o9dii
*/
s;main(c){while(c=getchar()+1)s=26*s+c-66;printf("%d",s);}
Example usage:
: kra...@inexorable:~/devel/inexorable-misc ; gcc base26.c -o base26
base26.c:2: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
base26.c: In function ‘main’:
base26.c:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function
‘printf’
: kra...@inexorable:~/devel/inexorable-misc ; echo -n 'AA' | ./base26; echo
0
: kra...@inexorable:~/devel/inexorable-misc ; echo -n 'BA' | ./base26; echo
26
: kra...@inexorable:~/devel/inexorable-misc ; echo -n 'ASDF' | ./base26;
echo
12251
This software is available via
git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/inexorable-misc.git
(or in <http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/inexorable-misc>) in the file
`base26.c`.
Like everything else posted to kragen-hacks without a notice to the
contrary, this software is in the public domain.
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