Convert a character to its numerical value

[alanwms]

I notice that "stringtoint" does not allow operation of alpha chars. Only numeric chars. Do we have a method of doing that?

[mnfisher]

What are you trying to achieve?

For example 'A' do you want 10 (hex value) or 65 ASCII value?

Martin

[alanwms]

Sure - I would like to stringtoint$("A") to have an outcome of 41 (I think that's the equate).

Currently I am achieving this with the function compare with "". That seems to give me an equivalency.

Wouldn't it be great to use stringtoint$ to get the equivalent decimal?

[mnfisher]

If you want the ASCII value 'A' = 65 = 0x41

So for a string :

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value = str[0]

in a calculation block

Will get the value of the first character of the string

Or if you just want the value of a character

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value = 'A'

note the single quote ' instead of double quote "

You can use a character constant instead of a constant to make your code more readable

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If c >= '0' and c <= '9'

to check if c is a digit for example


Martin

[alanwms]

Martin - You are the man!

Thank you for that tid bit.