Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!roemer From: roemer@cs.vu.nl (Roemer Lievaart) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> Date: 3 Aug 89 23:19:37 GMT References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lines: 18 mysore@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Swamy Bale) writes: >Hi everybody, > I would like to know how to convert a character into its numerical form >(or ascii number). >for example : 'a' ----> should return its numerical equivalent. Hi, everybody, I'm also a University's student in need of help. I always see that people define the function 'main' in C-programs. Why is that? What should it return? Can't I use another name? Thanks in advance, I need your help desperately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ____________________________________________________________________________ Roemer B. Lievaart | Pavlov's dog: "I've trained this professor Amsterdam, Holland | thoroughly. Every time a bell rings, he'll bring roemer@cs.vu.nl | me food." -- Rudy Kousbroek