Individual Character

[Skute]

Hi,

how can i set a variable to the value of a specific ASCII code?

ie, in visual basic its possible todo something like this:

string strDelimiter = chr(27)

How can i do that in C#?

 

[johnrbradley]

This should do something of what you want:

String strDelimiter = System.Convert.ToString((char)27);

 

[seanbo]

it'd be good to take note that john's solution works in loads of languages without much adjustment. chars and ints (or bytes etc.) can often be casted as each another.

 

[Skute]

ah excellent, thanks, the current method i used is this:

private char cDelim = (new ASCIIEncoding()).GetChars(new byte[]{27})[0];


Is your method better?

 

[seanbo]

john's will take less time and memory.

 

[theoxyde]

That also works in reverse as well..

char c = (char)97;
// c == 'a'

int i = (int)c;
// i == 97

Be careful because the moment you get a unicode character it all goes to pot.