C program to find the ASCII value of a character

In this article, you’ll learn how to find the ASCII value of a character in C. In addition to that, you’ll also learn how to do the opposite, that is, how to find the character corresponding to an ASCII value ranging from 0 to 127.

C program to find the ASCII value of a character

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    char c;
    printf("Enter a character to find its ASCII value: ");

    scanf("%c", &c);

    int asciiValue = c; // char is automatically casted to an integer

    printf("ASCII value of %c = %d\n", c, asciiValue);
    return 0;
}
$ gcc CharToAsciiValue.c
$ ./a.out
Enter a character to find its ASCII value: H
ASCII value of H = 72

C program to find the character corresponding to an ASCII value

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int n;
    printf("Enter a number in the range 0 to 127: ");

    scanf("%d", &n);

    char c = n; // integer is automatically casted to a character

    printf("Character corresponding to ASCII value %d = %c\n", n, c);
    return 0;
}
$ gcc AsciiValueToChar.c
$ ./a.out
Enter a number in the range 0 to 127: 67
Character corresponding to ASCII value 67 = C