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Old 29-01-2008, 05:38   #9 (permalink)
MikeMackay
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Originally Posted by haku
going from A => 1, B => 2 etc will work great up to 'i', but once you hit 'j' you are in the double digit letters, which depending on your reasoning for converting to numbers could screw everything up. You definitely wont be able to convert back without some indicator of where the division between letters is.
This is a great point, how would your system know where the division is ? Without knowing a little more about your exact requirements, and possibly with a few examples, I'm not sure if anyone can help?

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