Forums Feature Suggestions $base

i would like to see $base somehow be able to go over base 36

And what exactly would be the characters used to represent such bases?

$base could use an inlist and outlist parameter to determine the characters to use.

var %inlist = 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$%^&*()_+-=
var %outlist = 0123456789nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM!@#$%^&*()_+-=
var %s = $base($1-,76,76,0,0,%inlist,%outlist)

Could be fun. Would be nice if $base ignored unknown characters, rather than ending when it hits one. It could treat unknown characters as a separator of two real numbers to process. For the above example at least, it would ROT13 the text without failing upon the first symbol not included.

- Raccoon

Well that won't work exactly. For example in base16, "A" and "a" are both the same number, 10. So how exactly would I specify an "inlist" that would allow for ABCDEF being the same as abcdef?

It would use case sensitivity if an %inlist or %outlist is specified. Or perhaps case-insensitive for characters that only appear once in each list.

If you have an inlist and no outlist or an outlist with no inlist, a default case would have to be used. More specifically, $base would have a defined/known default inlist/outlist of 36 characters that would be used.