Convert Ascii to char

[meendar]

Hi,

I am having a character pointer which contains ascii values. i just
want to convert all these ascii values to respective characters and
again store it in another character pointer.

Anybody please help in c language.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[santosh]

Hi,

I am having a character pointer which contains ascii values.

It cannot. A char pointer can only point to char objects. A char object can
contain character codes, among which ASCII is one encoding.

i just want to convert all these ascii values to respective characters and
again store it in another character pointer.

The ASCII codes _are_ the characters. There is not need to convert any
further, unless you want to encode with a different encoding, in which case
your system should provide the necessary routines.

char c = 'A';
char *cptr = &c;

Now 'c' is a char object which is initialised with the system's value for
the character 'A'. In ASCII it's 65, but in another encoding it may be a
different value. 'cptr' is a pointer to char and is initialised to point
to 'c' here.

To display the character in 'c' to screen do:
putchar(c);

Other methods are using putc or printf. Look up your library documentation
or C textbook.

If this is not your problem, try giving more details and if possible code.

 

[Chris Dollin]

I am having a character pointer which contains ascii values.

That's unlikely. `char*` variables contain pointer values,
not ascii character values. The characters the pointer points
to may, or may not, be encoded in ascii.

i just
want to convert all these ascii values to respective characters and
again store it in another character pointer.

I /think/ you mean you want to copy a string from one place
to another.

If the expression `source` has value pointer to string of length N,
and the expression `dest` has value pointer to an array of chars
of length at least N+1, then executing the expression:

strcpy( dest, source )

will copy the string from `source` to `dest`. To use this expression,
you should ensure you've #included <string.h>.

This code doesn't care about ascii. In the unlikely event that matters,
you'll have to explain your problem more centrally.

Note that it's your responsibility to ensure that `dest` points to
enough characters. If it doesn't, your program will be broken, even
if nothing bad /seems/ to happen.

 

[meendar]

Hi,

I assume the question is misunderstood, hence ask the query in
different way. I am having a file with ascii values, how can i convert
these ascii values to corresponding characters and print it?

Thanks

 

[Chris Dollin]

I assume the question is misunderstood, hence ask the query in
different way. I am having a file with ascii values,

What do you mean by "a file with ascii values"?

Do you mean a 'binary' file all of whose bytes are ascii-encoded
characters, or a 'text' file containing numerals which are the decimal
representations of ascii encodings [1], or what?

Show us. An ounce of example is worth a pound of speculation [0].

how can i convert these ascii values to corresponding characters
and print it?

If it's a text file like [1], then:

* you can read in lines with `fgets`
* you can convert the decimal numbers to integers using `strtol`
* you can convert those numbers to characters using a table [2]
* you can store the characters in an array if you wish
* you can output the array with `fwrite` or the characters with `fputc`

[0] "kilo[gramme]" has too many syllables, and "imperial" is a good
game. Of /course/ I have scales that can weigh speculation -- this
is a research lab!

[1] Like:

32 83 112 111 111 33 10

[2] Your implementation need not use ascii encodings, so you'd need to
translate the ascii value to your local character set; the easy
way is to use a char[] with the i'th char being your local character
set's character corresponding to the character with ascii value i.
If your implementation /does/ use ascii and you don't want your
code to be portable to non-ascii implementations, you can just
stuff the ascii value into a char -- in C, chars are like small
integers anyway.

 

[Mark Bluemel]

Hi,

I assume the question is misunderstood, hence ask the query in
different way. I am having a file with ascii values, how can i convert
these ascii values to corresponding characters and print it?

Please don't top-post. (If you don't know what top-posting is, I suggest
you read <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>)

What do you mean by "ascii values" in a file?

Do you mean that where there would be a 'A' you have one of the
character strings "101" (octal), "65" (decimal) or "41" (hexadecimal) ?