BASECONVERT Function

Description:

This function converts a string¹ of characters in one base to the equivalent string of characters in another base.

The first argument is the input string¹ to be converted, the second argument is the current base of the input string, and the third argument is the target base.

Types:

Argument Type	Return Type
Alphanumeric	Alphanumeric
National	National

Usage example:

FUNCTION* BASECONVERT* ( string¹ current-base target-base )

Footnotes

1. The function can also accept an unsigned integer as its first argument when the current base is equal or less than 10. ↩ ↩² ↩³