NAME

a64l, l64a − convert between long integer and base-64 ASCII string

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

long a64l (const char ∗s);

char ∗l64a (long l);

DESCRIPTION

These functions are used to maintain numbers stored in base-64 ASCII characters.  These characters define a notation by which long integers can be represented by up to six characters; each character represents a “digit” in a radix-64 notation. 

The characters used to represent “digits” are . for 0, / for 1, 0 through 9 for 2−11, A through Z for 12−37, and a through z for 38−63. 

a64l takes a pointer to a null-terminated base-64 representation and returns a corresponding long value.  If the string pointed to by s contains more than six characters, a64l will use the first six. 

a64l scans the character string from left to right with the least significant digit on the left, decoding each character as a 6-bit radix-64 number. 

l64a takes a long argument and returns a pointer to the corresponding base-64 representation.  If the argument is 0, l64a returns a pointer to a null string. 

NOTES

The value returned by l64a is a pointer into a static buffer, the contents of which are overwritten by each call. 

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