Ben Aviram ben-av
ben-av
/ urlshortener.coffee
Created
March 17, 2012 16:38
— forked from esamattis/urlshortener.coffee
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742013/how-to-code-a-url-shortener/742047#742047
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| alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789".split("") | |
| base = alphabet.length | |
| exports.encode = (i) -> | |
| return alphabet[0] if i is 0 | |
| s = "" | |
| while i > 0 | |
| s += alphabet[i % base] | |
| i = parseInt(i / base, 10) |