Yep true I realised that. it was my fault I wasn't specific enough with my question. I didn't realise it until I saw the algorithm.
Still many thanks David it looked good J Can anyone think of a way to do this that will allow me to convert the int back to string. I don't have a problem with length luckily .net 4.0 comes with arbitrary precision which allows 2trillion digits (slow as hell compared to c++ arbitrary precision). But just need a way back from int back to str From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011 8:13 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: ASCII to int Tom, Using David's method will turn a string to an int. But there are two problems. 1. If the string is very long then it will overflow int. 2. You can't turn it back to the same string you started with. -- noonie On 11 October 2011 08:09, Tom Gao <[email protected]> wrote: sorry there's no real world scenario for this. I'm trying to replicate some calculation purely for academic reasons. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011 7:42 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: ASCII to int Can I ask what's the scenario? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Gao Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:36 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: ASCII to int Very nice. Thank you Any suggestion on how I can convert it back to string? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Rhys Jones Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011 1:05 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: ASCII to int int total = 0; string str = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; foreach (char c in str.ToCharArray()) { total += (int)c; } Assert.AreEqual(42, total); Davy, "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Martin Golding "After a bit of digging, it was pretty clear that the 'issues' were in the data access class. It was named 'summoner.cs'" DailyWTF On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Tom Gao <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know how to convert a string of ASCII characters to int? Eg "abcd" to some form of int. I need to do a bunch of calculations on strings the only way is if they're in int not sure if anyone know of a good way to do this. Thanks, Tom
