C convert a string into ascii codes.

Hey everyone.

I'm new to the coding community and I am loving it so far. I'm learning C as part of my degree. Anyway I'm working on a project to encrypt a message using my own basic and I mean basic algorithm. Howler I've tried this using numbers and it works but if I enter text to be converted it doesn't work

This is because I need to convert the text that had been entered into ascii code which can then be changed by my encryption and then back again into the characters.

As I'm new I'm stil using scanf / printf commands so

scanf("%s", Wordtobeencrypted);

Would be the input method

Any help would be great.

Kind regards

int=char; format should work.

 

Like this:

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
int test[25]={},i=0,j;
char a[25]="This is a test string.";
while(a[i]!='\0') {test[i]=a[i]; i++;}
for(j=0;j<i-1;j++) printf("%d ",test[j]);
return 0;
}

results in:

84 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 97 32 116 101 115 116 32 115 116 114 105 110 103 

Hopes this helps.

 

Thank you.

Of course if you actually want to encrypt a message I hope you use one of the many good commercially available encryption tools (or at least implement/use a well regarded cipher like AES).

If this thing is just a toy, have you considered ROT13?

Billly3

Thanks for your help!

Hey Billy,

 

Yeah If I was to do real encryption I'd never send anything using a method of my own, I'm not the best at advanced Math!

It's a college project were we are learning C and procedural programming so it's not going to be implemented in any way.

I have considered using a rotational encryption method but I'd still have to change the character to ascii before hand right?

 

Kind regards,

I have considered using a rotational encryption method but I'd still have to change the character to ascii before hand right?

On most platforms it will already be in ASCII. char is a integral type -- it stores a number that represents the character. Sirawit's example above just takes that and asks printf to print it as a number instead of as a character.

Billy3