Barry Caplan wrote:
Who knew in this day and age flipping bits to change case is still publishable (this is from today!)
What I find a lot more objectionable is that what this code pretends to
do is not defined (in particular, the domain over which it applies).
Without such qualification,
Barry,
If you think that this is bad try 390 mainframe EBCDIC shift to upper case.
You can shift up to 256 characters at a time with a single machine language
instruction by ORing a line of spaces to your character field. Now that is
bit flipping and is still heavily used.
Carl
-Original
This is a simple example demonstrating my own personal method.
//to upper case
public char upper(int c)
{
return (char)((c = 97 c =122) ? VisitSewers(c) : c);
}
static int VisitSewers(int c)
{
return AlligatorByte(c);
}
static int AlligatorByte(int c)
{
// Remove
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