• okibi (3/3) May 08 2007 Hey,
• Johan Granberg (2/8) May 08 2007 You could just assign the charachter to a uint variabel, that should wor...
• Alexander Panek (5/11) May 08 2007 Shouldn't a cast be sufficiant?
• okibi (4/18) May 08 2007 Yes, a cast would work, however I was wondering if there was an actual f...
• Jarrett Billingsley (4/6) May 08 2007 Just cast it. chars are just integers; you can freely cast between
• John Ohno (5/14) May 08 2007 A good general template function (will work for anything that can be exp...
• okibi (2/19) May 08 2007 Well, that doesn't compile. Is the ! needed? Anyways, if I pass an "s" t...
• Jari-Matti =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?= (2/9) May 08 2007 That ! is a typo.
• okibi (4/14) May 08 2007 I thought it was, works great without it!
• Stewart Gordon (6/11) May 10 2007 "John Ohno" wrote in message
• Bill Baxter (8/22) May 10 2007

okibi <okibi ratedo.com> writes:

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!

Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> writes:

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.

Alexander Panek <alexander.panek brainsware.org> writes:

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;

okibi <okibi ratedo.com> writes:

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?

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"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. 

John Ohno <john.ohno gmail.com> writes:

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);
}

okibi <okibi ratedo.com> writes:

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?

Jari-Matti =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

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.

okibi <okibi ratedo.com> writes:

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

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

"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. 

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Stewart Gordon wrote:
 "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.

<con>
It makes someone have to go lookup what toUint actually does.  Rather 
than being able to tell immediately by virtue of knowing basic D syntax.

<pro>
toUint(3+foo(x)) is a little easier on the eyes than
cast(uint)(3+foo(x)).

--bb