ascii value and conversions

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 508

Add a function that reports the value of the specified ascii character.
For example
ascii('A') 
=65


If we want to expand it further we can consider processing full strings and using speedcruch
as utility for conversion.
example

asciiTohex("HELLO")
= 48 45 4C 4C 4F

Reported by ichilem on 2014-06-23 03:31:47

[Former user]

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-11-28 17:19:37 - Labels added: Type-Enhancement

[Former user]

Issue 539 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-11-28 17:19:55

[Former user]

This would be a very helpful feature, saving me the time consulting the ascii table.

Reported by maurosmartins on 2015-02-16 16:04:00

[Helder Correia]

We need to think about adding the char and string types...

[Pol Welter]

I think this should not be a priority. Adding chars and strings (thus essentially arrays/vectors) and giving SC a multitype engine is a really daunting task. It should be a calculator, not a general purpose programming language! I have said this before, but I am having mixed feelings about matrix/vector/strings in SC.

Instead of trying to make SpeedCrunch more like existing tools (e.g. python, Matlab) shouldn't we focus on improving the components that the other tools actually lack? Personally, I am using SC because it's small, neat and fast. The requested feature here is IMO badly suited for SC. It will be just as fast to fire up a python shell which can do the exact thing (and a lot more!).