/* base64.c -- Encode/decode integers in base64 format * Created: Mon Sep 23 16:55:12 1996 by faith@dict.org * Revised: Sat Mar 30 11:55:09 2002 by faith@dict.org * Copyright 1996, 2002 Rickard E. Faith (faith@dict.org) * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published * by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at * your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Library General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. * * $Id: base26.c,v 1.3 2002/08/02 19:43:15 faith Exp $ * * \section{Base-26 Routines} * * \intro These routines perform encoding and decodingusing the 26 * lowercase characters, a-z. This is sometimes useful for generating * unique identifiers that do not contain numbers. * */ #include "maaP.h" static unsigned char b26_list[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; #define XX 100 static int b26_index[256] = { XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11,12,13,14, 15,16,17,18, 19,20,21,22, 23,24,25,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, XX,XX,XX,XX, }; /* |b26_encode| encodes |val| in a printable base 26 format. A MSB-first encoding is generated. */ const char *b26_encode( unsigned long val ) { static char result[8] = { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a', '\0'}; static unsigned long previous = 0; int i; if (previous != val) { previous = val; for (i = 6; i >= 0; i--) { result[i] = b26_list[ val % 26 ]; val = val / 26; } result[7] = 0; } for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) if (result[i] != b26_list[0]) return result + i; return result + 6; } unsigned long b26_decode( const char *val ) { unsigned long v = 0; int i; int offset = 1; int len = strlen( val ); for (i = len - 1; i >= 0; i--) { int tmp = b26_index[ (unsigned char)val[i] ]; if (tmp == XX) err_internal( __FUNCTION__, "Illegal character in base26 value: `%c' (%d)\n", val[i], val[i] ); v += tmp * offset; offset *= 26; } return v; }