Getting the ASCII value , How?

[freQ]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
I am trying to make a simple encrypter, it will get the ascii value of a letter, then it will add, subtract and so on and then it will output it


What is the problem you are having?
I dont know how to get an ascii value of a letter


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
i suppose you need to used the :read funtion

Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
i was hoping somebody could post an example something like
open test.txt
get the values
add 1 to all the values
output output.txt


Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1.1 if you could suggest a better version please do so

[DtY]

The ord() function is what you're looking for, and for the next logical question (how to get the character of a certain ascii value), you use chr()

[freQ]

i am sorry but i am very lost with your explanation could you give me a simple example how to use those two functions?

[Zren]

chr() and ord() functions have nothing to do with open, close, read or any other File Input/Output function.

Ord() is a function that will take a character (think of it as a string with only 1 letter/number/etc) and then return it's ASCII number value.

Turing:

put ord("a") %output is 97

So you need to figure out how to break that file down into individual characters.

[evildaddy911]

a good thing to do is google your problem, then post if needed...

anyways, im trying to do a similar thing, i can encrypt the word, but then when I try to decrypt ,I only get numbers instead of words...

[Dreadnought]

I'll give you a hint as to what your doing wrong. Check what the value of 'keynum' is when you encrypt and when you decrypt.

Hopefully that helps.

[Aange10]

Just looking straight at the code, evil, your problem is apparent.

Another hint I'd like to give you, not only for solving problems, but before you ask anybody to help you, is to comment your code.

If you go through and tell us what your code is doing, you'll figure out what is wrong.


EDIT: Also using

Turing:

get key get text

will create wierd errors if a person types in anything with a space. Instead you should use

Turing:

get key: * % OR get text: 255