HEEEELP: Letters to ASCII decimal equivalents?

Hi to everyone.

I am a newbie in c++,

I have an assesment for my software engineerin subject.
We have to write a program in c++ where when you type your name it will show the ASCII decimal equivalents for each letter and then will add them.
I have tried every possible loop but it seems that it is not working. I always get 204.
Any suggestions?

If you need to see the code tell me and I will post it here.

See ya

Mazerius:confused:

ok I will post it tomorrow. I am not in my house now.
Hope that I can get some help

Mazerius

Hi

Sorry for not posting the code yesterday.
Here it is

code

Code:

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int main()                                               

{               
cout << endl;

        char Name[50];
       
        cout << "Please type in your name....:  ";
       
        cin.getline (Name, 50, '\n');                                                 
       
        cout << endl;

        cout << "You have typed.....:\t\a" << Name << endl;                                       
                                                                                                 
        cout << endl;

//********** Begining of the loop for the ASCII *********
//********** decimal equivalents                *********

        for (int i=0; i<256; i++)

        {
                if ((char)i==Name[50])
       
                {
                        cout << Name << "," << i << endl;
                }

        }

        cout << endl << endl;

        cout << " Press any key if you want to quit!" << endl;

cin.ignore();

return 0;

}

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The problem is that i can not make the loop work so i can change the letters to ascii decimal equivalents.
I know that that the loop is wrong but I can not find any solution.
Any suggestions?

See ya

Mazerius

try typecasting

Code:

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int a = 0;
char b = 'b';
a = int(b);

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It works the other way with char(a);

Thanks

I have to replace the if statement with the code you suggested?

See ya

Mazerius

Hey Trauts

I try your suggestion but know it gives me always
1245004 for any name.

What I am trying to do is the following:

Let's say you type "Ben"

The programme shows back "Ben"
and then shows for each letter of the name the ascii number
like this B, 66
e, 98
n, 119
and the it gives the total for this numbers

P.s. the numbers in the example are random I do not know the correct ascii values.

Any suggestions?

See ya

Mazerius

Posting code.... read this first.... :)

Replace the for-loop with this

Code:

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int sum=0;
for (int i=0; i<strlen(Name); i++)
{
  cout << Name[i] << ',' << (int)Name[i] << '\n';
  sum += Name[i];
}
cout << sum << '\n';

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