Diff: KnowledgeBase/Scripts/Base80.rb

Differences between version 3 and previous revision of KnowledgeBase/Scripts/Base80.rb.

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version 3

module GenericRadix
  # Define symbols to be your alphabet
  @int = 0
  @str = ""

  def radix
    @radix ||= symbols.length
  end
  module_function :radix

  def symbols_valid?(number)
    !!(number =~ Regexp.new("^[" << symbols.gsub(/[\[\]]/) {|m| "\\" << m } << "]*$"))
  end
  module_function :symbols_valid?

  def itos(number)
    number = number.to_i
    return symbols[0, 1] if number.zero?
    res = ""
    until number.zero?
      index = number % radix
      number = number / radix
      res = symbols[index, 1] + res
    end
    res
  end
  module_function :itos

  def stoi(number)
    number = number.dup.to_s.split(//)
    res = 0
    until number.length.zero?
      char = number.shift
      index = symbols.index(char)
      res *= radix
      res += index
    end
    res
  end
  module_function :stoi

  def initialize(number)
    if number.is_a?(Fixnum)
      @int = number.to_i
      @str = itos(@int)
    elsif symbols_valid?(number.to_s)
      @str = number.to_s
      @int = stoi(@str)
    else
      raise "Not an Integer or a radix #{radix} number"
    end
  end

  def to_i
    @int
  end

  def to_s
    @str
  end

  def zero?
    @int.zero?
  end
end

class Base80
  def symbols
    "!()*,-.0123456789:;@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~"
  end
  include GenericRadix
end

class Base256
  def symbols
    ( Range.new(0,255).map {|ord| ord.chr }.join )
  end
  include GenericRadix
end