+/* Converts NUMBER into a string in 26-adic notation in BUFFER,
+ which has room for SIZE bytes. Returns true if successful,
+ false if NUMBER, plus a trailing null, is too large to fit in
+ the available space.
+
+ 26-adic notation is "spreadsheet column numbering": 1 = A, 2 =
+ B, 3 = C, ... 26 = Z, 27 = AA, 28 = AB, 29 = AC, ...
+
+ 26-adic notation is the special case of a k-adic numeration
+ system (aka bijective base-k numeration) with k=26. In k-adic
+ numeration, the digits are {1, 2, 3, ..., k} (there is no
+ digit 0), and integer 0 is represented by the empty string.
+ For more information, see
+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration. */
+bool
+str_format_26adic (unsigned long int number, char buffer[], size_t size)
+{
+ size_t length = 0;
+
+ while (number-- > 0)
+ {
+ if (length >= size)
+ return false;
+ buffer[length++] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"[number % 26];
+ number /= 26;
+ }
+
+ if (length >= size)
+ return false;
+ buffer[length] = '\0';
+
+ buf_reverse (buffer, length);
+ return true;
+}
+