Author Topic: Encoding eight characters as a single number (Read 3820 times)

Deep Toaster · « **on:** October 31, 2011, 07:30:51 pm »

Just wanted to share a little routine I made to store eight bytes of uppercase text as a single real variable (for example for high-score player names).

Operation	Input	Output	Code
Encoding	Str0	Ans
Decoding	J	Str0

parserp · « **Reply #1 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:32:03 pm »

Exactly what I need to finish my BASIC game!!! +1

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #2 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:33:40 pm »

GIF of it in action, with the actual program:

Hot_Dog · « **Reply #3 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:50:03 pm »

This would be awesome for lists, because people are less likely to delete lists than Real Variables

parserp · « **Reply #4 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:51:45 pm »

and you can create lists, but you can't create strings!
it all works out!!!

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #5 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:53:47 pm »

Quote from: Hot_Dog on October 31, 2011, 07:50:03 pm

This would be awesome for lists, because people are less likely to delete lists than Real Variables

Yep, that's what I'm doing. A list of just ten elements (ninety bytes) is enough for five names and five high scores

GB · « **Reply #6 on:** December 19, 2011, 04:54:58 pm »

Have you tried storing strings directly into lists?

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #7 on:** December 19, 2011, 04:56:04 pm »

Why do that when you can store the same string in one-eighth the memory?

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Deep Toaster

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