In Java how do you convert a decimal number to base 36?

Question

If I have a decimal number, how do I convert it to base 36 in Java?

Answer 1

See the documentation for Integer.toString

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#toString(int,%20int)

toString

public static String toString(int i, int radix)
....
The following ASCII characters are used as digits:

   0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

What is radix? You're in luck for Base 36 (and it makes sense)
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html#MAX_RADIX

public static final int     MAX_RADIX   36

Answer 2

Here is a method to convert base 10 to any given base.

 public char[]  base10Converter(int number, int finalBase) {
    int quo;
    int rem;
    char[] res = new char[1];

    do {
        rem = number % finalBase;
        quo = number / finalBase;
        res = Arrays.copyOf(res, res.length + 1);
        if (rem < 10) {
            //Converting ints using ASCII values
            rem += 48;
            res[res.length - 1] = (char) rem;
        } else {
            //Convert int > 9 to A, B, C..
            rem += 55;
            res[res.length - 1] = (char) rem;
        }
        number /= finalBase;
    } while (quo != 0);


    //Reverse array
    char[] temp = new char[res.length];
    for (int i = res.length - 1, j = 0; i > 0; i--) {
        temp[j++] = res[i];
    }

    return temp;
 }

Answer 3

This code works:

public class Convert {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int num= 2147483647;
        String text="ABCD1";


        System.out.println("num: " + num + "=>" + base10ToBase36(num));
        System.out.println("text: " +text + "=>" + base36ToBase10(text));
    }

    private static String codeBase36 = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

    //"0123456789 abcdefghij klmnopqrst uvwxyz"
    //"0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 012345"


    private static String max36=base10ToBase36(Integer.MAX_VALUE); 

    public static String base10ToBase36(int inNum) {
        if(inNum<0) {
            throw new NumberFormatException("Value  "+inNum +"  to small");
        }
        int num = inNum;
        String text = "";
        int j = (int)Math.ceil(Math.log(num)/Math.log(codeBase36.length()));
        for(int i = 0; i < j; i++){
            text = codeBase36.charAt(num%codeBase36.length())+text;
            num /= codeBase36.length();
        }
        return text;
    }
    public  static int base36ToBase10(String in) {
        String text = in.toLowerCase();
        if(text.compareToIgnoreCase(max36)>0) {
            throw new NumberFormatException("Value  "+text+"  to big");
        }

        if(!text.replaceAll("(\\W)","").equalsIgnoreCase(text)){
            throw new NumberFormatException("Value "+text+" false format");
        }
        int num=0;
        int j = text.length();
        for(int i = 0; i < j; i++){
            num += codeBase36.indexOf(text.charAt(text.length()-1))*Math.pow(codeBase36.length(), i);
            text = text.substring(0,text.length()-1);
        }
        return num;
    }


}

Answer 4

Given a number i, use Integer.toString(i, 36).

Answer 5

This can be helpful to you.The operation being performed on the 4 digit alphanumeric String and decimal number below 1679615. You can Modify code accordingly.

char[] alpaNum = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".toCharArray();
     String currentSeries = "";
    int num = 481261;
        String result = "";
        String baseConversionStr = "";
        boolean flag = true;
        do 
        {
            baseConversionStr = Integer.toString(num % 36) + baseConversionStr;
            String position = "";
            if(flag)
            {
                flag = false;
                position = baseConversionStr;
            }
            else
            {
                position = Integer.toString(num % 36);
            }
            result += alpaNum[new Integer(position)];    
            num = num/36;
   }
        while (num > 0);
        
        StringBuffer number = new StringBuffer(result).reverse();
        
        String finalString = "";
        
        if(number.length()==1)
        {
            finalString = "000"+articleNo;
        }
        else if(number.length()==2)
        {
            finalString = "00"+articleNo;
        }
        else if(number.length()==3)
        {
            finalString = "0"+articleNo;
        }
        
        currentSeries = finalString;

Answer 6

If you dont want to use Integer.toString(Num , base) , for instance, in my case which I needed a 64 bit long variable, you can use the following code: Using Lists in JAVA facilitates this conversion

long toBeConverted=10000; // example, Initialized by 10000
List<Character> charArray = new ArrayList<Character>();
List<Character> charArrayFinal = new ArrayList<Character>();
int length=10; //Length of the output string
long base = 36;

            while(toBeConverted!=0)
            {
                long rem = toBeConverted%base;
                long quotient = toBeConverted/base;
                if(rem<10)
                    rem+=48;
                else
                    rem+=55;
                charArray.add((char)rem);
                toBeConverted=quotient;
            }
            // make the array in the reverse order
            for(int i=length-1;i>=0;--i){
                if(i>=charArray.size()){
                    charArrayFinal.add((char) 48); // sends 0 to fix the length of the output List
                } else {
                    charArrayFinal.add(charArray.get(i));
                }

            }

Example:

(278197)₃₆=5YNP