How to interpret those words?

[dadads]

Pardon my noobness.

But I have seen JASS scripts in which unit-types,ability-types are defined as being an integer. But strangely though, the integers are defined as letters such as 'A00l','Bf00', etc.

When I tried outputting these letters in the game, I got numbers like "1002302019"

How do I interpret these numbers into numeric form?
i.e. What is 'A00l' in numeric?

 

[phyrex1an]

Jass supports more than 1 integer number format, afaik base 10 (normal numbers), octal, hexadecimal and some sort of ASCII number representation.

Easiest way to calculate the base 10 numbers is to display it as a text message:

call BJDebugMsg('A00l')

But, there is realy no need to do this, the vaule is the same no matter what base you use.

 

[AceHart]

And, when in the Object Editor, press Ctrl + D, to see those values for your units, abilities, ...

 

[dadads]

Ctrl + D, for seeing values of spells/units/buff/etc in their "true form", right?

I actually wanted to interpret these numbers to see if I can give spells to a unit by entering it from player chat.

thx alot, anyways.

It's probably some kind of base-62 numeric.

 

[AceHart]

> some kind of base-62 numeric

Hm?

'ABCD' = ((ascii(A) * 256 + ascii(B)) * 256 + ascii(C)) * 256 + ascii(D)

Where "ascii" is the character value as seen in the rather famous ASCII table:
ascii(A) = 65
ascii(a) = 97
ascii(0) = 48