Convert character to Ascii without ASC

[kenbw]

Everyone,
Yes I'm sure using the ASC function that is part of the Visual Basic runtime environment left over from VB6 would be the easiest way to do this, but I don't want to use it. I want to find a better way, mainly because I want to be able to build using Nant and seem to be having some problems with that when I'm trying to use some of the older VB functions such as Mid, Trim, LTrim, etc. Right now all I'm trying to do is take a single character and get its ascii equivalent.

Thanks in advance,
Ken

 

[JohnYingling]

This works even though their is no documented method for Char rather than Char() in GetBytes.

Option Strict On
Dim x As Char = "a"c
Dim bytw() As Byte
Dim encAsc As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()
bytw = encAsc.GetBytes(x) ' = 97

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