Problem

Quite a common task in programming is the need to find the ASCII value of a character. The code below demonstrates how to do this in D.

Solution

int main(char[][] args) {

    auto ch        = 'A';
    int  charAsInt = ch;
    printf( "%d", charAsInt );

    return 0;
}

In D, getting the ASCII value of a character a trivial task. Simply assign the character to an integer and D will “promote” the character to reveal its ASCII value.

Some other points to note about the above code are:

• char values in D are UTF-8 by default; if you want UTF-16 or UTF-32 characters then use the wchar or dchar types respectively.
• Also note the use of the auto keyword when I declared the character variable, ch. The auto keyword gives you access to D implicit type inference features.