Casting String to Char

Hello, I am very new to the dxl language and need help with casting a string as a char.

I am getting the text from an object, placing it in a string, and parsing the string to get ascii values of each character. I am not sure how to convert texti:i into a character since intOf("a") does not work while intOf('a') does work.

Thanks for the help!
TheDrizzle - Wed Jun 08 14:26:20 EDT 2011

Re: Casting String to Char
llandale - Wed Jun 08 15:07:19 EDT 2011

Double quotes are for "string", single quotes are for 'character'.
Substrings use this: intFrom:intTo; subCharacters use this: intLoc.

Object oCurr = current
string NameAttr = "Object Text"    // Change to your Attribute Name
string Value = probeAttr_(oCurr, NameAttr)
 
char   c
int    i, Ascii
print "Value = " Value "\n"
 
for (i=0; i<length(Value); i++)
{  if (i >= 100) break     // Value far too long for this chore
   c = Value[i]            // <<<--- here you go, get the char
   Ascii = intOf(c)        // <<<--- convert char to Ascii Code
   print "\t" c "\t" Ascii "\n"
}

• Louie

Re: Casting String to Char
TheDrizzle - Wed Jun 08 15:19:23 EDT 2011

Re: Casting String to Char
llandale - Wed Jun 08 15:49:06 EDT 2011

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