Question

I am attempting to convert base 16 to base 36. I’m taking md5 hashes and making them have all 0-9a-z.

I searched around and didn’t find anything good. Any suggestions for converting hexadecimal to hexatridecimal in c++? Do you guys know any good libraries for doing it?

Answer 1

I assume the tricky part you’re struggling with is the conversion to Rad36, not getting a integral value from a hex number represented as a string. So, here is a function which takes an unsigned __int64, converts it to Radix 36, and returns a string with the converted value.

string rad36(unsigned __int64 v)
{
    string retval;
    while( v > 0 )
    {
        unsigned m = v%36;
        if( m <= 9 )
            retval.insert(0,1,'0'+m);
        else
            retval.insert(0,1,'A'+m-10);
        v /= 36;
    }
    return retval;
}