Hey,

I was wondering if D has a simple function to return the ASCII value of a character as a uint, much like ord() does in php.

Thanks!

okibi wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I was wondering if D has a simple function to return the ASCII value of a character as a uint, much like ord() does in php.
> 
> Thanks!

You could just assign the charachter to a uint variabel, that should work.

On Tue, 08 May 2007 11:27:40 -0400
okibi <okibi@ratedo.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I was wondering if D has a simple function to return the ASCII value of a character as a uint, much like ord() does in php.
> 
> Thanks!

Shouldn't a cast be sufficiant?

char c = 'a';
uint i = cast(uint)c;

Alexander Panek Wrote:

> On Tue, 08 May 2007 11:27:40 -0400
> okibi <okibi@ratedo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I was wondering if D has a simple function to return the ASCII value of a character as a uint, much like ord() does in php.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Shouldn't a cast be sufficiant?
> 
> char c = 'a';
> uint i = cast(uint)c;

Yes, a cast would work, however I was wondering if there was an actual function that I could use to grab the value while passing it to another function, specifically this function:

saveItem.addAccelerator("activate",accelGroup,i,GdkModifierType.CONTROL_MASK,accelFlags);

That function contains the i variable from your function. Is there a simple function, or should I use a cast?

"okibi" <okibi@ratedo.com> wrote in message news:f1q8ne$3147$1@digitalmars.com...
> That function contains the i variable from your function. Is there a simple function, or should I use a cast?

Just cast it.  chars are just integers; you can freely cast between characters and integers.

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> "okibi" <okibi@ratedo.com> wrote in message news:f1q8ne$3147$1@digitalmars.com...
> > That function contains the i variable from your function. Is there a simple function, or should I use a cast?
> 
> Just cast it.  chars are just integers; you can freely cast between characters and integers.
> 
> 

A good general template function (will work for anything that can be explicity casted to uint, including chars, doubles, and pointers):

uint toUint!(T)(T c) {
        return (cast(uint)c);
}

John Ohno Wrote:

> Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> 
> > "okibi" <okibi@ratedo.com> wrote in message news:f1q8ne$3147$1@digitalmars.com...
> > > That function contains the i variable from your function. Is there a simple function, or should I use a cast?
> > 
> > Just cast it.  chars are just integers; you can freely cast between characters and integers.
> > 
> > 
> 
> A good general template function (will work for anything that can be explicity casted to uint, including chars, doubles, and pointers):
> 
> uint toUint!(T)(T c) {
>         return (cast(uint)c);
> }

Well, that doesn't compile. Is the ! needed? Anyways, if I pass an "s" to that, it should return the ASCII value (115 I think), right?

okibi wrote:
> John Ohno Wrote:
>> uint toUint!(T)(T c) {
>>         return (cast(uint)c);
>> }
> 
> Well, that doesn't compile. Is the ! needed? Anyways, if I pass an "s" to that, it should return the ASCII value (115 I think), right?

That ! is a typo.

Jari-Matti Mäkelä Wrote:

> okibi wrote:
> > John Ohno Wrote:
> >> uint toUint!(T)(T c) {
> >>         return (cast(uint)c);
> >> }
> > 
> > Well, that doesn't compile. Is the ! needed? Anyways, if I pass an "s" to that, it should return the ASCII value (115 I think), right?
> 
> That ! is a typo.

I thought it was, works great without it!

Thanks,
Okibi

"John Ohno" <john.ohno@gmail.com> wrote in message news:f1q9n0$1bd$1@digitalmars.com...
<snip>
> A good general template function (will work for anything that can be explicity casted to uint, including chars, doubles, and pointers):
>
> uint toUint!(T)(T c) {
>        return (cast(uint)c);
> }

Is there really any point using this when you can just cast when you need to?  OK, so it saves two characters where it's used....

Stewart.