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hi i want to convert say letter A to its Ascii Value and back to its
Character Value..
im cant Seem To Find how to do this
Tks
DaveP
Jul 29 '07 #1
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DaveP <dv*****@sbcglobal.netwrote:
hi i want to convert say letter A to its Ascii Value and back to its
Character Value..
im cant Seem To Find how to do this
Just convert it to int and back - there's already an implicit
conversion from char to int:

char c = 'A';
int ascii = c;
c = (char) ascii;

Note that this will be the *Unicode* value of any particular char
rather than just the ASCII value. Of course, for all ASCII characters
it's the same thing.

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Jul 29 '07 #2
Thanks for the Response
DaveP

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DaveP <dv*****@sbcglobal.netwrote:
>hi i want to convert say letter A to its Ascii Value and back to its
Character Value..
im cant Seem To Find how to do this

Just convert it to int and back - there's already an implicit
conversion from char to int:

char c = 'A';
int ascii = c;
c = (char) ascii;

Note that this will be the *Unicode* value of any particular char
rather than just the ASCII value. Of course, for all ASCII characters
it's the same thing.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
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