How to get ASCII value of string in C#

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I want to get the ASCII value of characters in a string in C#.

If my string has the value "9quali52ty3", I want an array with the ASCII values of each of the 11 characters.

How can I get ASCII values in C#?

15 Answers

From MSDN

string value = "9quali52ty3";

// Convert the string into a byte[].
byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(value);

You now have an array of the ASCII value of the bytes. I got the following:

57 113 117 97 108 105 53 50 116 121 51

string s = "9quali52ty3";
foreach(char c in s)
{
  Console.WriteLine((int)c);
}

This should work:

string s = "9quali52ty3";
byte[] ASCIIValues = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s);
foreach(byte b in ASCIIValues) {
    Console.WriteLine(b);
}

Do you mean you only want the alphabetic characters and not the digits? So you want "quality" as a result? You can use Char.IsLetter or Char.IsDigit to filter them out one by one.

string s = "9quali52ty3";
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
foreach(char c in s)
{
  if (Char.IsLetter(c))  
    result.Add(c);
}
Console.WriteLine(result);  // quality
string text = "ABCD";
for (int i = 0; i < text.Length; i++)
{
  Console.WriteLine(text[i] + " => " + Char.ConvertToUtf32(text, i));
}

If I remember correctly, the ASCII value is the number of the lower seven bits of the Unicode number.

If you want the charcode for each character in the string, you could do something like this:

char[] chars = "9quali52ty3".ToCharArray();

Why not the old fashioned easy way?

    public int[] ToASCII(string s)
    {
        char c;
        int[] cByte = new int[s.Length];   / the ASCII string
        for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
        {
            c = s[i];                        // get a character from the string s
            cByte[i] = Convert.ToInt16(c);   // and convert it to ASCII
        }
        return cByte;
    }
    string nomFile = "9quali52ty3";  

     byte[] nomBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(nomFile);
     string name = "";
     foreach (byte he in nomBytes)
     {
         name += he.ToString("X02");
     }
`
     Console.WriteLine(name);

// it's` better now ;)

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