Well the title pretty much sums it up. I want to use something like asc("0") in C++, and want to make the program platform independent so don't want to use 48! Any help appreciated.
Answer
You can simply use single-quotes to make a character constant:
char c = 'a';
The character type is a numeric type, so there is no real need for asc and chr equivalents.
Here's a small example that prints out the character values of a string:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
char str[] ="Hello, World!";
printf("string = \"%s\"\n", str);
printf("chars = ");
for (int i=0; str[i] != 0; i++)
printf("%d ", str[i]);
printf("\n");
return 0;
}
The output is:
string = "Hello, World!"
chars = 72 101 108 108 111 44 32 87 111 114 108 100 33