Oracle-L: Re:Base conversion

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:48:56 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053C2B5.20030128084856@fatcity.com>

Sounds like something the "bright spark" or Duhveloper should fix. It's better when they experience their own pain.

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Author: "Grant Allen" <grant_at_towersoft.co.uk>
Date:       1/28/2003 7:45 AM

For very obscure reasons (read: one of those developer decisions that you want to use a time-machine to go back and change), we're storing some information in base-36 (0,1,2,3...8,9,A,B,C,...,Y,Z) in a varchar field. And you thought hexadecimal was fun :-)

Now some bright spark would like me to build some PL/SQL to do base conversion - in the first instance from base 36 to base 10 (i.e decimal). Has anyone done something similar in the past ... that I could borrow or co-opt? As you've guessed, the deadline is yesterday :-)

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)

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