text to ascii converter?

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Farkenell · Post by **Farkenell** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 5:14 am

Anyone know of any (having a quick perusal, and look around google didn't find much results?) a quick command line one would be great

hjnenc · Post by **hjnenc** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:05 am

What exactly do you mean by "text" ???

bob_111 · Post by **bob_111** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:06 am

Correct me if im wrong, but isnt text made up of ascii ?

Farkenell · Post by **Farkenell** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:29 am

err....

kinda like this.... http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/www/comp/docs/ascii.html

mcdermottpa · Post by **mcdermottpa** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:45 am

To clarify, you want to convert a text document to a text document of ascii codes?

hjnenc · Post by **hjnenc** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:48 am

Farkenell wrote:err....

kinda like this.... http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/www/comp/docs/ascii.html

Hmm, I still don't know which format you want to convert to ascii code. Lets try it differently: which problem do you have, what do you want to achieve?

andrew_j_w · Post by **andrew_j_w** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:57 am

I'm as confused as the other people, but will this do?

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# python
>>> ord("a")
97
>>> ord("z")
122

HTH,
Andrew

tigrezno · Post by **tigrezno** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:57 am

what about "hexdump", it have decimal ouput too

Farkenell · Post by **Farkenell** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:43 pm

yeah something like whats been mentioned, I'm not sure what it is called, or what...but I want to pass a string thru a program and it will print out its numerical equiv....basicaly I want a to chuck a string thru a program, and it will print out the results equiv of whats on the left hand side
say I put:
abc
output would be:
097
098
099

multix · Post by **multix** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:58 pm

hmm, this seems to be a trivial program, or a I missing something?

I propose something like this:

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#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  char ch;

  while(!feof(stdin))
  {
     ch = getchar();
     printf("%o\n", ch);
  }
}

to tweak it :
remove "\n" in the printf and substitute it with "\t" or with a blank space if you want results in a row.

This program outputs Octal values, change %o to %x for a hex output, %d for decimal integer and %u for unsigned.

for more info, do "man printf"

the feof() code is a bit rough.

multix · Post by **multix** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:09 pm

Or use hexdump.

Farkenell · Post by **Farkenell** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:59 pm

thank you very much I'm looking at em atm, hexdump seems to do what I want, but looks like the code provided maybe able to help me more, with abit of tweaking

thank you very much

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