Please help with ASCII

Is there a function to convert a character to its ASCII equivalent and assign it to a variable? or is there some other method..??

I know I can assign a character to an integer variable and get its ascii, but I can't do it with an input of a character variable.

Please help if you can. :confused:

I never heard about such a function, but this should do the trick:

Code:

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int num1;
char num2='a';

num1 = num2;

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now num1 holds the value: 97

also, read about printf(), %d, %c and how to use them!!!

You *might* try the function called atoi()...


But realistically, it's already a value. if you create a 'char' variable, and it the letter 'g' is input into it (or assigned by you, for that matter), your computer does _not_ remember 'g'... it remembers the ASCII value.

A char is a signed value from 0 to 127 (in ASCII). an unsigned char is a value from 0 to 255 (in ASCII), which is the maximum range an 8-bit value can hold.

Emphasis on *might*. The reason we say you might be able to use it is that atoi() doesn't take a character. It takes a string as an argument.

That being said, you cannot simply pass it a single character and expect it to work. You'll have to convert it to a string first.

Quzah.

What Devil Panther replied is called cast!

You can also turn it around:

Code:

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char a=32;

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and the result is the character '"'.

klausi