Joergen Bech
6/28/2008 8:18:00 AM
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:56:55 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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.GetFileIOEncoding();
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.IsLittleEndian)
{
byte num4 = buffer[0];
buffer[0] = buffer[1];
buffer[1] = num4;
}
num = BitConverter.ToInt16(buffer, 0);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
throw exception;
}
return num;
}