BaseCustom

by Daniel P. Clark

Inspired by:

• base62 by “JT Zemp” and contributors “Saadiq Rodgers-King”, “Derrick Camerino”

Description

• Define any base conversion with any identifier for each value.

require "basecustom"
 
base2 = BaseCustom.new('01')
base2.base('00001')
=> 1
base2.base('100110101')
=> 309
base2.base(340)
=> "101010100"
base2.base(0xF45)
=> "111101000101"
 
baseABC = BaseCustom.new('ABC')
baseABC.base('ABC')
=> 5
baseABC.base(123)
=> "BBBCA"

Usage Video

Version History

Version 1.0.2

• Cleaned up gemspec.

Version 1.0.1

• Enabled use of special characters like newline (\n) or tab (\t) to be counted
  as acceptable numeric characters. These characters can now also be printed with
  expected behavior.

Version 1.0.0

• Bump version number. Gem has proven ready as a version 1 release.

Version 0.1.8

• Changed .all() to join by delimiter

Version 0.1.7

• Added features .length() and .all()

Version 0.1.6

• Fixed 0 as 0 bug.

Version 0.1.5

• Added jmchambers’ debug from jtzemp/base62 to avoid infinite loop in Rails 3.0.7

Version 0.1.4

• My father suggested delimiter splitting on String initialization made more sense.
• Test-Unit assertions fixed/updated.

Version 0.1.3

• Fixed multicharacter numbering units
• Added delimiter for multicharacter numbering units
• Safe base type creation. Each situation checked for and proper error messages.

Version 0.1.2

• Added unique to string init declaration
• Added unique to array as well as checking that all array elements are strings

Version 0.1.1

• Flatten array’s on input initialization

Version 0.1.0

• Complete Release