Can some one please tell me if it is possible to convert a number from one base to another arbitrary base. Is there any language construct or library function ?

I know that it is easy to specify number literals in different bases like
0123
0x12

Thanks in advance
SK

"ns" <ns@dummy.com> wrote in message news:f639ka$2nhc$1@digitalmars.com...
> Can some one please tell me if it is possible to convert a number from one base to another arbitrary base.

Yes.  Any Turing complete language, of which D is an example, can be used to implement an algorithm to do this.

> Is there any language construct or library function ?
<snip>

std.string.toString(long value, uint radix) converts a number to any base between 2 and 36.  There doesn't seem to be a function in Phobos to convert _from_ an arbitrary base - don't ask me why.  But it shouldn't be difficult to write a function to do this.

Stewart. 

Thank you
SK

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> "ns" <ns@dummy.com> wrote in message news:f639ka$2nhc$1@digitalmars.com...
>> Can some one please tell me if it is possible to convert a number from one base to another arbitrary base.
> 
> Yes.  Any Turing complete language, of which D is an example, can be used to implement an algorithm to do this.
> 
>> Is there any language construct or library function ?
> <snip>
> 
> std.string.toString(long value, uint radix) converts a number to any base between 2 and 36.  There doesn't seem to be a function in Phobos to convert _from_ an arbitrary base - don't ask me why.  But it shouldn't be difficult to write a function to do this.
> 
> Stewart.