half-functional prototype

src/core.rs

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+//! Handles conversion one word at a time for any base
+
+use std::ops::Index;
+
+use crate::base4::alphabet;
+
+pub fn num_to_cat(num: u32, alphabet: Vec<String>, char_length: u32) -> String {
+    let mut num: u32 = num.clone();
+    let base: u32 = alphabet.len() as u32;
+
+    // base*n*-ifying logic
+    let mut nums: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
+    while (nums.len() as u32) < char_length {
+        nums.push((num as u32) % base);
+        num /= base;
+    }
+    nums.reverse();
+
+    let mut result = "".to_string();
+    for i in nums.clone() {
+        result += alphabet[i as usize].as_str();
+        // put a space in between if it's not the last one
+        if i != nums.len() as u32 - 1 {
+            result += " "
+        }
+    }
+
+    return result;
+}
+
+/// Converts catspeak to a [`u32`]
+pub fn cat_to_num(text: Vec<String>, alphabet: Vec<String>, char_length: u32) -> u32 {
+    let mut nums: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
+    for word in text.clone() {
+        for i in 0..alphabet.len() {
+            if word == alphabet[i] {
+                nums.push(i as u32);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    let base = alphabet.len();
+    let idx = 0;
+    let mut num = 0 as u32;
+    for n in nums {
+        let power = (text.len() - (idx + 1)) as u32;
+        num += n * (base as u32).pow(power);
+    }
+    return num;
+}