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package org.apache.poi.ss.formula.functions;

Some utils for converting from and to any base

Author:cedric dot walter @ gmail dot com
/** * <p>Some utils for converting from and to any base<p> * * @author cedric dot walter @ gmail dot com */
public class BaseNumberUtils { public static double convertToDecimal(String value, int base, int maxNumberOfPlaces) throws IllegalArgumentException { if (value == null || value.length() == 0) { return 0.0; } long stringLength = value.length(); if (stringLength > maxNumberOfPlaces) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(); } double decimalValue = 0.0; long signedDigit = 0; boolean hasSignedDigit = true; char[] characters = value.toCharArray(); for (char character : characters) { long digit; if ('0' <= character && character <= '9') { digit = character - '0'; } else if ('A' <= character && character <= 'Z') { digit = 10 + (character - 'A'); } else if ('a' <= character && character <= 'z') { digit = 10 + (character - 'a'); } else { digit = base; } if (digit < base) { if (hasSignedDigit) { hasSignedDigit = false; signedDigit = digit; } decimalValue = decimalValue * base + digit; } else { throw new IllegalArgumentException("character not allowed"); } } boolean isNegative = (!hasSignedDigit && stringLength == maxNumberOfPlaces && (signedDigit >= base / 2)); if (isNegative) { decimalValue = getTwoComplement(base, maxNumberOfPlaces, decimalValue); decimalValue = decimalValue * -1.0; } return decimalValue; } private static double getTwoComplement(double base, double maxNumberOfPlaces, double decimalValue) { return (Math.pow(base, maxNumberOfPlaces) - decimalValue); } }