string to integer?

[noobsauce]

Ok, I am to make a program that askes the user to enter his name and then separate him into 2 catagories according to his first letter of last name. I want to convert the letter into integer and use the ASCII table to find what it is. But i can't convert it to integer...? here is my code so far

code:

var username : string (100) var counter, lastname: int := 0 put "Please enter you name: ".. get username : * loop counter := counter + 1 exit when username(counter) = username(*)   %donno if this works perfectly end loop loop counter := counter - 1 exit when username(counter) = ' ' end loop put username(counter+1) lastname := strint (username(counter+1))        %error on this line put lastname

Is there a special function to do it? I tried to do it directly:

code:

lastname := username(counter+1)

it says error anyways...

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code:

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[TheGuardian001]

there is actually a command built into the language used for this.

Turing:

number := ord(letter) letter := chr(number)

ord goes from a letter to its ASCII character, while chr does the opposite and converts ASCII codes into letters.

[noobsauce]

Thanks it works, but how do i fix

code:

exit when username(counter) = username(*)

It doesn't work if the last letter was repeated in the name

[pavol]

I am assuming that your code:

Turing:

loop     counter := counter + 1     exit when username (counter) = username (*) end loop

is used for finding the length of the username string. An easier way of doing this is to simply write:

Turing:

counter := length(username)