{"id":11303,"date":"2024-03-14T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-convert-c-language-characters-to-ascii-codes\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:06:03","slug":"how-to-convert-c-language-characters-to-ascii-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-convert-c-language-characters-to-ascii-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert C chars to ASCII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To convert C language characters to ASCII code, you can use a typecasting operation to convert a character variable into an integer type. For example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> c = <span class=\"hljs-string\">'A'<\/span>;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> ascii = (<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span>)c;\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"ASCII\u7801\u4e3a: %d\"<\/span>, ascii);\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The above code converts the character &#8216;A&#8217; to its ASCII code and prints it out. It&#8217;s important to note that in C language, the character type is actually an integer type, so a character variable can be directly assigned to an integer variable for conversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To convert C language characters to ASCII code, you can use a typecasting operation to convert a character variable into an integer type. 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