C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

[Nathan Sokalski]

VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I am
attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me here?
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotm ail.com

http://www.nathansokalski.com/

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Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Nathan Sokalski wrote:

VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I am
attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me here?

(int)c

Arne

PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.

[Mr. Arnold]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()


"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kwrote in message
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Nathan Sokalski wrote:

>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I
>am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me
>here?

>
(int)c
>
Arne
>
PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.

Asc() can still be used VB.Net. It was in VB3-VB6 and QuickBasic too.

[Mr. Arnold]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()


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Mr. Arnold écrivait :

>"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kwrote in message
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>>Nathan Sokalski wrote:
>>>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a
>>>character. I am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#.
>>>Can somebody help me here?
>>>
>>(int)c
>>>
>>Arne
>>>
>>PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.

>>
>Asc() can still be used VB.Net. It was in VB3-VB6 and QuickBasic too.

>
But it's not equivalent to Arne's solution as it returns windows default
encoding character code (not Unicode value)
>

What does that have to do with anything? It's not a VB6'ism is all that was
being pointed out here and nothing else.

[Mr. Arnold]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()


"Fred" <foleide@free.f r.invalidwrote in message
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<snipped>

Yeah -- yeah don't be going off the deep-end with this.

[Michel Posseth [MCP]]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

'"I believe Asc is a VB6'ism"

It would have been if you needed to set a reference to the
Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Compatib ility namespace
(Microsoft.Visu alBasic.Compati blity.dll)
please note that if you do not need to set this reference you are working
with the Microsoft.Visua lBasic namespace wich is for current Visual Basic
..NET programs , it is a mamanged library that is part of the framework just
as system.data for instance, It is even possible to set a reference to the
VB namespace in C# and thus use all the VB shortcut methods in C#

hth

Michel Posseth
..



"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kschreef in bericht
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Nathan Sokalski wrote:

>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I
>am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me
>here?

>
(int)c
>
Arne
>
PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Nathan-

\\\
int a = Convert.ToInt32 ('A');
int b = 'A';
///

-Cor

"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski@hot mail.comschreef in bericht
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VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I
am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me
here?
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotm ail.com

http://www.nathansokalski.com/

>

[Joergen Bech]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:56:55 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.d k>
wrote:

>Nathan Sokalski wrote:

>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I am
>attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me here?

>
>(int)c
>
>Arne
>
>PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.

If you *know* that your character is in the 0x00-0x7f range,
(int)c will do just fine.

But as you can see from using .Net Reflector (below), the full
Asc(char) function is a little more elaborate than that.

Regards,

Joergen Bech

---snip---

public static int Asc(char String)
{
int num;
int num2 = Convert.ToInt32 (String);
if (num2 < 0x80)
{
return num2;
}
try
{
byte[] buffer;
Encoding fileIOEncoding = Utils.GetFileIO Encoding();
char[] chars = new char[] { String };
if (fileIOEncoding .IsSingleByte)
{
buffer = new byte[1];
int num3 = fileIOEncoding. GetBytes(chars, 0, 1, buffer,
0);
return buffer[0];
}
buffer = new byte[2];
if (fileIOEncoding .GetBytes(chars , 0, 1, buffer, 0) == 1)
{
return buffer[0];
}
if (BitConverter.I sLittleEndian)
{
byte num4 = buffer[0];
buffer[0] = buffer[1];
buffer[1] = num4;
}
num = BitConverter.To Int16(buffer, 0);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
throw exception;
}
return num;
}

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski@hot mail.comschrieb :

VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I
am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me
here?

'Asc' returns the Windows ANSI character code depending on the system's
Windows ANSI codepage. Is this really what you want to do?

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

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Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Fred wrote:

Dans : news:ePaA8NO2IH A.6096@TK2MSFTN GP06.phx.gbl,
Fred écrivait :

>Dans : news:OSp7aGO2IH A.5512@TK2MSFTN GP06.phx.gbl,
>Mr. Arnold écrivait :

>>"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kwrote in message
>>news:48659a67 $0$90274$147262 98@news.sunsite .dk...
>>>Nathan Sokalski wrote:
>>>>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a
>>>>character . I am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#.
>>>>Can somebody help me here?
>>>>
>>>(int)c
>>>>
>>>PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.
>>>
>>Asc() can still be used VB.Net. It was in VB3-VB6 and QuickBasic
>>too.

>>
>But it's not equivalent to Arne's solution as it returns windows
>default encoding character code (not Unicode value)

>
PS : Arne's solution is equivalent to AscW

Good point. There is a difference. I think chances are reasonable
good that the original poster want the Unicode value. But it is
obviously something he needs to be aware of.

Arne

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Michel Posseth [MCP] wrote:

'"I believe Asc is a VB6'ism"
>
It would have been if you needed to set a reference to the
Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Compatib ility namespace
(Microsoft.Visu alBasic.Compati blity.dll)
please note that if you do not need to set this reference you are working
with the Microsoft.Visua lBasic namespace wich is for current Visual Basic
.NET programs , it is a mamanged library that is part of the framework just
as system.data for instance, It is even possible to set a reference to the
VB namespace in C# and thus use all the VB shortcut methods in C#

OK.

But to me it is still a function that only exists for compatibility
reasons and is a procedural leftover in an object oriented world.

But that is of course not a technical view.

Arne

[Nathan Sokalski]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

No, I do not want the Unicode value. I do know the difference between Asc()
and AscW() (Although I do appreciate that you took into account that it is
an easy mistake to make), and I am looking for the equivelant of Asc(). My
planned use is for generating JavaScript (You can see the VB.NET version of
the code I am trying to convert on my site at
http://www.nathansokalski.com/code/R...utMethod.aspx).
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotm ail.com

http://www.nathansokalski.com/

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Fred wrote:

>Dans : news:ePaA8NO2IH A.6096@TK2MSFTN GP06.phx.gbl,
>Fred écrivait :

>>Dans : news:OSp7aGO2IH A.5512@TK2MSFTN GP06.phx.gbl,
>>Mr. Arnold écrivait :
>>>"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kwrote in message
>>>news:48659a6 7$0$90274$14726 298@news.sunsit e.dk...
>>>>Nathan Sokalski wrote:
>>>>>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a
>>>>>characte r. I am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#.
>>>>>Can somebody help me here?
>>>>>
>>>>(int)c
>>>>>
>>>>PS: I believe Asc is a VB6'ism.
>>>>
>>>Asc() can still be used VB.Net. It was in VB3-VB6 and QuickBasic
>>>too.
>>>
>>But it's not equivalent to Arne's solution as it returns windows
>>default encoding character code (not Unicode value)

>>
>PS : Arne's solution is equivalent to AscW

>
Good point. There is a difference. I think chances are reasonable
good that the original poster want the Unicode value. But it is
obviously something he needs to be aware of.
>
Arne

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Joergen Bech <jbech<NOSPAM >@ wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:56:55 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.d k>
wrote:

>Nathan Sokalski wrote:

>>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I am
>>attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me here?

>(int)c

If you *know* that your character is in the 0x00-0x7f range,
(int)c will do just fine.

Or if he wants unicode, which you normally would in .NET ...

But as you can see from using .Net Reflector (below), the full
Asc(char) function is a little more elaborate than that.

public static int Asc(char String)
{
int num;
int num2 = Convert.ToInt32 (String);
if (num2 < 0x80)
{
return num2;
}
try
{
byte[] buffer;
Encoding fileIOEncoding = Utils.GetFileIO Encoding();
char[] chars = new char[] { String };
if (fileIOEncoding .IsSingleByte)
{
buffer = new byte[1];
int num3 = fileIOEncoding. GetBytes(chars, 0, 1, buffer,
0);
return buffer[0];
}
buffer = new byte[2];
if (fileIOEncoding .GetBytes(chars , 0, 1, buffer, 0) == 1)
{
return buffer[0];
}
if (BitConverter.I sLittleEndian)
{
byte num4 = buffer[0];
buffer[0] = buffer[1];
buffer[1] = num4;
}
num = BitConverter.To Int16(buffer, 0);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
throw exception;
}
return num;
}

Yuck - a piece of code.

Arne

[Nathan Sokalski]

Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Yes, it is, I have completely tested the VB.NET version and everything works
perfectly and as I expected.
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotm ail.com

http://www.nathansokalski.com/

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.atwrot e in message
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"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski@hot mail.comschrieb :

>VB.NET has a function, Asc(), that gets the Ascii value of a character. I
>am attempting to find an equivelant function for C#. Can somebody help me
>here?

>
'Asc' returns the Windows ANSI character code depending on the system's
Windows ANSI codepage. Is this really what you want to do?
>
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

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Re: C# equivelant of VB.NET's Asc()

Nathan Sokalski wrote:

No, I do not want the Unicode value. I do know the difference between Asc()
and AscW() (Although I do appreciate that you took into account that it is
an easy mistake to make), and I am looking for the equivelant of Asc(). My
planned use is for generating JavaScript (You can see the VB.NET version of
the code I am trying to convert on my site at
http://www.nathansokalski.com/code/R...utMethod.aspx).

Unless you have to support some legacy ASP stuff, then I would
recommend going Unicode internally and UTF-8 externally
for an ASP.NET web app.

Arne