28 Aug
2015
28 Aug
'15
8:14 p.m.
On Aug 28, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/28/2015 07:15 AM, Mike - st257 wrote:
Thoughts as to why my BC functions aren't properly converting between bases?
Decimal to binary or hex works fine, but not binary or hex to decimal and so forth.
I'm not an expert in bc, so I might be wrong, but it looks like setting the ibase inside a function is simply too late. ibase affects how bc interprets input.
Yes, and it’s a serious design mistake in bc, IMHO. No other programmable system I’ve ever used changes how numbers in program text are interpreted based on prior commands to the system.
I wrote a long answer explaining this on the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange here: