I can print out the string values of what I read, but I am having trouble converting to use their ASCII equivalent

I am trying to read a few lines from a file and store the ASCII value of each character read as I go line by line. My input looks like this:

Here is what my code originally looked like and what it produced:

char buf3[256], buf5[256], buf6[256], buf7[256], buf4[256], buf9[256];
fscanf(fp, "%[^n]", buf3);
while (!feof(fp))
fscanf(fp, "%s %s %s %s %s", buf4, buf5, buf6, buf7, buf9);
printf("n%c %c %c %c %c", *buf4, *buf5, *buf6, *buf7, *buf9);



I thought printing out %c would give me the ASCII value.
Is there a way to convert these values?

%d

printf("%d",buf5[0]);

*buf4, *buf5, *buf6, *buf7, *buf

%d

'0'

2 Answers
2

Let's suppose your input 011R0 is stored in array buf then to print ASCII value of each character, you'll have to access each character and print it as if you are printing an integer:

011R0

buf

int i;
while(buf[i])

printf("%dn",buf[i]);
++i;



By using indices [i] one can access each character if the string. Besides that have a look at this: Why is “while ( !feof (file) )” always wrong?

[i]

I thought printing out %c would give me the ASCII value ? No, the format specifier %c prints equivalents char value, since buf4, buf5..etc are char array, so when you prints *buf5 it prints first char of array & if you print ascii value of that, you have to subtract it from 48(ASCII value of 0) if *buf contains digits(0 - 9). For e.g

%c

char

buf4

buf5

*buf5

ascii

48

*buf

printf("%dn",(*buf4) - 48);


Or

printf("%dn",(*buf4) - '0');


Also for this particular case its wstage of stack memory to declare five char array like buf3,buf4..buf9. you can use just one char array & do the operation. For e.g

buf3

buf4

buf9

int index = 0 ;
char buf[20]; /* lets say each word of file are length of 20 char, you can change it */
while (fscanf(fp,"%s",buf) != EOF)
while(buf[index] != '')
if(buf[index] >= '0' && buf[index] <= '9') /*or use isdigit() */
printf("%d",buf[index] - 48);

else /* apart from 0,1,...9 */
printf("%d",buf[index]);

index++;

printf(" ");
index = 0;



Also read why its wrong to use feof() here

feof()

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