changing a character to integers

[Nkhosinathie]

helo everyone may i someone please help me i'm doing a survey program where i'm calculating males,female and people where gender doesnt matter so my problem is i'm using characte m-male,f-female and h-hhetrosexual so how can i change them to integers.a little help will be appreciated

[weaknessforcats]

Maybe:

1 = male
2 = female
etc...

[Nkhosinathie]

Maybe:

1 = male
2 = female
etc...

i've tried already but i don't get what the program wants.

i'm using a for loop where a total of hundred people were doing a survey and decided to complete a questionnaire which include highest grade,age and gender so i've tried to come with a formular to calculate the number of males their age and highest grade but i failed

[weaknessforcats]

Now it appears you have an algorithm problem and not a character-to-integer conversion problem.

Have you done the calculation you want on paper with a pencil and gotten the correct answer?? If you can't do that, then no amount of looping will get you the result you want.

You have to know your algorithm before you start coding.

[Savage]

helo everyone may i someone please help me i'm doing a survey program where i'm calculating males,female and people where gender doesnt matter so my problem is i'm using characte m-male,f-female and h-hhetrosexual so how can i change them to integers.a little help will be appreciated

I'm just little curios.

Why do u want to convert char to int?

Savage