This is to be used in conjunction with https://gist.github.com/3776135

testBaseMToBaseN.cfm

// testing

test.description	= "A fairly easy to visually-test example";
test.number			= 255;
test._baseFrom		= "dec";
test._baseTo		= "bin";
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);

test.description 	= "Another one";
test.number			= "FFFF";
test._baseFrom		= "hex";
test._baseTo		= "dec";
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);

test.description 	= "Using a bespoke 'alphabet' (OCTAL in this case)";
test.number			= 123;
test._baseFrom		= "01234567";	// ie: octal
test._baseTo		= "dec";
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);

test.description 	= "Another one using a bespoke 'alphabet' (this is URL safe)";
test.number			= replace(createUuid(), "-", "", "ALL");
test._baseFrom		= "hex";
test._baseTo		= "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-._~";	// safe for a URL
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);

test.description 	= "Converting to/from the same base";
test.number			= replace(createUuid(), "-", "", "ALL");
test._baseFrom		= "hex";
test._baseTo		= "hex";	// safe for a URL
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);


test.description 	= "Multi-step proof it all works correctly: 1) from a GUID to BASE62";
test.number			= replace(createUuid(), "-", "", "ALL");
test._baseFrom		= "hex";
test._baseTo		= "base62";
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);

test.description 	= "Multi-step proof it all works correctly: 2) from BASE62 to BINARY";
test.number			= test._result;
test._baseFrom		= "base62";
test._baseTo		= "bin";
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);

test.description 	= "Multi-step proof it all works correctly: 3) from BINARY back to the original HEX";
test.number			= test._result;
test._baseFrom		= "bin";
test._baseTo		= "hex";
test._result		= baseMToBaseN(test.number, test._baseFrom, test._baseTo);
writeDump(test);