How to get ASCII value of a Character?

[hstijnen]

Hi,

How can I get the ASCII (integer) value of a Character in C++ (and vice versa)? In PAscal you have therefore int = ORD(char) and char = CHR(int). What are the equivalents in C++?

Background:
I want to read data from an Excel file. I'v saved it as dbf and connected with a TTable. Works OK. But some characters are ill formed. E.g. an é (e with accent) in Excel becomes an unreadable character in my TTable. To solve this problem I want to scan the string and replace the bad characters on the basis of the underlying ASCII/integer values of the chars.

Thanks for your help

Henk

 

[bNasty]

Well, C/C++ is low-level enough that char is ALSO an integer, so you already know ASCII value. just write
int ascii_val = (int)character; or something like this

However, I'm not sure that this is the right way of solving the problem - instead, set the language driver in DBE administrator to the same language in your Excel file (and do the same thing in your app) and you shouldn't have that problem anymore