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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:10:55PM -0500, Laura Brody wrote:
> Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>:
> > You're working with base 36 integers.  I assume you're using the
> > traditional increment approach where:
> >
> > 08..09..0a..0b...0y..0z..10..11...19..1a.... ?
> >
> > There's no native method of dealing with base-36 numbers in filepro,
> 
>   **BZZZZT** Wrong! Thanks for playing .....
> 
> Page 32 of Laura's Quick Reference Guide for filePro v5.0 says:
> 
>    v4.5 BASE() Returns the value of numb in the numeric base result_base
> ("2"-"36")
>     n=BASE(n,num_base,[result_base])
>     The third parameter is optional, if omitted, the default is "10".

So you can translate from your b-36 back to b-10, increment, and then
translate back.  Nice.  Forgot that was in there.  Nice that it goes up
to 36, too, and anyone who ever wondered why *that* limit?  This is why.

Cheers,
-- jra
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