dnameToInt

Function: dbnameToInt { string -> int }

file: job.t
package: muf
status: alpha

This is a fairly esoteric internal function. Muq internally uses 21-bit fields to identify database files, but externally uses an ASCII representation of this number in the filename, a six-character string consisting approximately of a string of four all lower-case (user db file) or all upper-case (system db file) alphabetic characters, usually padded with a couple of dashes.

This function converts from the string representation to the integer representation. Invalid strings are silently coerced to something reasonable.

For readability (and to avoid "------" being ambiguous) database id zero (the root db) is special-cased as "ROOTDB".

Stack:
"lisa" dbnameToInt
Stack: 1291847
intToDbname
Stack: "lisa--"
pop 0 intToDbname
Stack: "ROOTDB"
pop "LISP" dbnameToInt intToDbname
Stack: "LISP--"
dbnameToInt 1 + intToDbname
Stack: "LISQ--"

See section intToDbname.

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