Converting an english character to ASCII without files

Question

I am working on an encryption project for school and can't find any code that will convert a single character to the ascii counterpart. There is the:
String p = System.getProperty("line.separator");
System.out.println(p);
But that only converts to the primary code of the computer used. There is also code that will convert like this, but writes to a file. I only need it to output the counterpart in ascii within the program, not a file. I know this is probably simple but I cannot find how to do so. I could build a class that will do it, but I am sure it's already out there. I just need to know the syntax. It could work like this:
convert(R); //will produce ASCII code for character 'R'
outputs: 82
If anyone can help email me or post a reply. Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

ok, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but - isn't there a direct map between the int value of the char and the char value of the int? That is, when I run this program...
public class CharConvert {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        char charToConvert = '\uFEFC';
        int codeToConvert = 65276;
        System.out.println("Char converts to: " + (int)charToConvert);
        System.out.println("Code converts to: " + (char)codeToConvert);
}I get the output
$ java CharConvert
Char converts to: 65276
Code converts to: ?('cause my shell can't seem to spit out that arabic symbol tha tis unicode FEFC). So, can't we just cast to convert here? Or am I missing something?
What I'm saying is, can't RadiantProgrammer just say
char rChar = (char)rCode;?
Lee