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  • A Aqueel

    do you want the value of a to be 250 in this case? We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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    thepersonof
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    Thankyou ... converted to an unsigned char and it works great

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      Hi I found that char could be converted to an interger as follows: char c = 250; int a = int(c) How can I get the a value of a to be the same as what I put in? It sometimes comes out negative, although I can add 256. There is a simpler way? thank you

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      Wim Engberts
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      union { char c[sizeof (int)]; int n; } Convert; char c = 250; Convert.n = 0; Convert.c[0] = c; Then, in Convert.n you will get the proper value. Good luck! William

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        Thankyou ... converted to an unsigned char and it works great

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        Aqueel
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        Yah i misunderstood. They are right. We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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        • W Wim Engberts

          union { char c[sizeof (int)]; int n; } Convert; char c = 250; Convert.n = 0; Convert.c[0] = c; Then, in Convert.n you will get the proper value. Good luck! William

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          Cedric Moonen
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          Geez :omg: That's a really complicated way of doing that !

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          • W Wim Engberts

            union { char c[sizeof (int)]; int n; } Convert; char c = 250; Convert.n = 0; Convert.c[0] = c; Then, in Convert.n you will get the proper value. Good luck! William

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            Chaa gia hai bhai! We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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            • A Aqueel

              Chaa gia hai bhai! We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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              Kya cha gaya hai Yar

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                Kya cha gaya hai Yar

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                Aqueel
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                hahahaha What a solution yaar! Nice Unique and innovative :-D We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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                • A Aqueel

                  hahahaha What a solution yaar! Nice Unique and innovative :-D We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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                  ...and you said what ? :confused:

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                  • T toxcct

                    ...and you said what ? :confused:

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                    Aqueel
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                    i said "Chaa gia hai bhai" which means "Great job! brother!". This is Urdu language idiom. It is used for a person who does something great. :) We Believe in Excellence www.aqueelmirza.cjb.net

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                    • T thepersonof

                      Hi I found that char could be converted to an interger as follows: char c = 250; int a = int(c) How can I get the a value of a to be the same as what I put in? It sometimes comes out negative, although I can add 256. There is a simpler way? thank you

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                      David Crow
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                      thepersonof wrote:

                      int a = int(c)

                      A cast is actually not necessary. You could accomplish the same with:

                      int a = c;

                      because a char gets internally promoted to an int during such operations. A char can hold values in the range -128 to 127, whereas an unsigned char can hold values in the range 0 to 255.


                      "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                      "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                      • T thepersonof

                        Hi I found that char could be converted to an interger as follows: char c = 250; int a = int(c) How can I get the a value of a to be the same as what I put in? It sometimes comes out negative, although I can add 256. There is a simpler way? thank you

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                        Hi there. As the other replies have stated, you need to use the unsigned char for values above 127. To perform explicit conversions in C++, you should use the static_cast instead of the old C-Style casts. unsigned char c = 250; int a = static_cast<int>(c); Cheers

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                        • A abbiyr

                          Hi there. As the other replies have stated, you need to use the unsigned char for values above 127. To perform explicit conversions in C++, you should use the static_cast instead of the old C-Style casts. unsigned char c = 250; int a = static_cast<int>(c); Cheers

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                          David Crow
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                          abbiyr wrote:

                          To perform explicit conversions in C++, you should use the static_cast instead of the old C-Style casts.

                          For integral types, this is not necessary.


                          "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                          "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                            abbiyr wrote:

                            To perform explicit conversions in C++, you should use the static_cast instead of the old C-Style casts.

                            For integral types, this is not necessary.


                            "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                            "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                            Quite agree. It is not necessary, the unsigned char will be cast correctly without it. I recommended it though, as it does explicity show the intentions of the developer.

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