RE: Incrementing Character Fields

["Brendan Bispham" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A problem along the same lines.....

What is the minimum number of alphanumeric characters required to represent
a decimal number?

For instance, a 10 digit number represented by characters 0-9 and A-B - thus
allowing the resulting number to become an object name.

A simple RPG XLATE would translate 0 to A, 1 to B...9 to J... but can anyone
think of a method that requires less characters than the original?


Brendan Bispham

Dean wrote:
>Here's an interesting exercise!  I'd swear that I've seen this done in RPG
>many moons ago, but the only practical example I can recall is from a long
>dead platform using an equally long dead version of BASIC.  Say you have a
>three character alpha field that needs to be incremented progressively
like a
>number (e.g., AAA, AAB, AAC...ABA, ABB, ABC...ZZX, ZZY, ZZZ).  Any ideas
on
>how this could be done in either RPG or RPGLE?

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