baseConvert() & 32-bit ops (was Best array population & access optimization)

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>> also, not being familiar with binaryEncode how would you write the 
>> following using binaryEncode?
>>
>> put charToNum("F") + (charToNum("o") * 256 ) + ( charToNum("r") * 
>> 65536 ) + ( charToNum("m") * 16777216 ) into xL
>
>   local halfBlock  -- required
>   put binaryDecode("N","Form",halfBlock) into numConverted
>
> In converting strings to blocks use 'char i to (i+3) of plainText' 
> instead of "Form" and pay attention to the end.  The variable 
> numConverted with be 0 for short data.

Whoops.  I got the bytes backwards.  Can you live with my order?

   put binaryDecode("N", "m" & "r" & "o" & "F" ,halfBlock) into 
numConverted

Dar Scott