That's because strings are Unicode and aren't represented through ASCII codes. Unicode is double byte, so when you get that value you're getting only the first of the two bytes.

There are a number of complicated ways to do this. Basically you have to change the encoding of the string to ASCII and stream it into a Byte Array. Then you can read the individual character as standard 8 bit ASCII. I don't remember offhand how this works, but if you look at the HTTP Web Request article at: http://www.west-wind.com/articles.asp there's a bunch of stuff in there on string encoding...

+++ Rick ---


>Cathi,
>
>The weird thing about this is that it doesn't appear that your mychar is actually the same thing.
>
>

>Char mychar = (char)149;
>MessageBox.Show(mychar.ToString());
>

>
>This shows a different character than what I see if I do the same thing in VFP:
>
>

>mychar = CHR(149)
>MessageBox(mychar)
>

>
>Any idea what's going on?
>
>~~Bonnie
>
>
>>I just ran this sample code and it returned 149. Try this and see what you get:
>>
>>

>>String cString;
>>Char mychar;
>>mychar=(char)149;
>>cString = mychar.ToString() + "ABC";
>>int lnChar = (int)Char.Parse(cString.Substring( 0, 1 ));
>>

>>
>>
>>>I'm having a problem with some ascii codes here and I can't figure it out. It would be great if someone could help me. Anyway, in VFP:
>>>

>>>?chr( asc(chr(149))
>>>

>>>displays some weird symbol, but a symbol I need.
>>>
>>>the problem is with the chr(149). Of course, I'm not actually using
>>>'chr(149)', but the appropriate character. Just doing it this way for display purposes here.
>>>Now, if I had a string that began with chr(149), in c#:
>>>

>>>int nAscVal = (int)Char.Parse( cString.Substring( 0, 1 ) )
>>>

>>>
>>>nAscVal now has a value of 8226, it should be 149.
>>>
>>>It must have something to do with the encoding, but I don't know what. I've tried some stuff, like:
>>>

>>>int pintAsc = (new ASCIIEncoding()).GetBytes(new char[]{Char.Parse( cString.Substring( 0, 1 ))})[0];
>>>

>>>but no matter what character I select with the substring, it always returns a value of 63 to pintAsc. I'm lost on this one, anyone got any clues? Thanks,
>>>jfh