Conversion to ascii

[altheim]

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var alphabet = new Array();

function listAlphabet()
{
var j;

for(var i=0, j=65; i<=25; i++)
alphabet[i] = toascii(j++);

for(i=0; i<=25; i++)
document.write(alphabet[i]+" ");
}

listAlphabet();
alphabet = null;
//-->
</script>

The above doesn't work <sigh>.

I googled for something to convert integers to ascii in JS and
could find only the toascii() function above (and ToAscii() from
msdn developers' pages) which must be for C/C++ or Java -
or summat.

Shorely it can be done in JS?

--
altheim

[VK]

altheim wrote:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var alphabet = new Array();

function listAlphabet()
{
var j;

for(var i=0, j=65; i<=25; i++)
alphabet[i] = toascii(j++);

for(i=0; i<=25; i++)
document.write(alphabet[i]+" ");
}

listAlphabet();
alphabet = null;
//-->
</script>

The above doesn't work <sigh>.

I googled for something to convert integers to ascii in JS and
could find only the toascii() function above (and ToAscii() from
msdn developers' pages) which must be for C/C++ or Java -
or summat.

Yes, you must be got it from a wrong place, because JavaScript/JScript
doesn't have toascii() build-in function. But what is even more
important: JavaScript/JScript doesn't operate with ASCII - it's an
Unicode based language and it works with Unicode values.

You want to use String.fromCharCode method. Try this:
....
alert(String.fromCharCode(112, 108, 97, 105, 110));
....
(will alert the word "plain")

Unicode tables (charts) are on the regular place:
<http://www.unicode.org/charts/>

[altheim]

"VK" <sc**********@yahoo.com> wrote:

altheim wrote:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var alphabet = new Array();

function listAlphabet()
{
var j;

for(var i=0, j=65; i<=25; i++)
alphabet[i] = toascii(j++);

for(i=0; i<=25; i++)
document.write(alphabet[i]+" ");
}

listAlphabet();
alphabet = null;
//-->
</script>

The above doesn't work <sigh>.

I googled for something to convert integers to ascii in JS and
could find only the toascii() function above (and ToAscii() from
msdn developers' pages) which must be for C/C++ or Java -
or summat.
Yes, you must be got it from a wrong place, because JavaScript/JScript
doesn't have toascii() build-in function. But what is even more
important: JavaScript/JScript doesn't operate with ASCII - it's an
Unicode based language and it works with Unicode values.

Yes, I'm afraid I am a little behind the times. I'm trying to move
on to JavaScript but finding it enormously difficult with not knowing
what functions are available.
You want to use String.fromCharCode method. Try this:
...
alert(String.fromCharCode(112, 108, 97, 105, 110));
...
(will alert the word "plain")
Thanks. This worked as expected.
Unicode tables (charts) are on the regular place:
<http://www.unicode.org/charts/>

--
altheim

[VK]

altheim wrote:

I'm trying to move
on to JavaScript but finding it enormously difficult with not knowing
what functions are available.

So why to starve yourselve? :-)

JScript 5.6
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/1e9b3876-3d38-4fd8-8596-1bbfe2330aa9.asp>

or

JavaScript 1.5
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference>

(JScript and JavaScript are not two different languages to learn: that
is pretty much the same language with some subtle implementation
differences and some extra features in either version. The core can be
learn by either manual, but IMHO JScript docs are more "startup
friendly" - this is once again IMHO)

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

VK wrote:

[...] JavaScript/JScript doesn't operate with ASCII - it's an
Unicode based language and it works with Unicode values.

Nowadays, yes. Unicode support was not introduced before JavaScript 1.3
and JScript 3.0.
PointedEars
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