[RESOLVED] 1 is a number or a character.

Just look the following code fragment.

Code:

---

Console.WriteLine("The number " + '1' + " as a character have int value " +(int)'1' + ".");

Console.WriteLine("The number " + “1” + " as a number have int value " +        (int)(1) + ".");

---

The output is,

Code:

---

The number 1 as a character has int value 49.
The number 1 as a number has int value 1.

---

I never use a number as character and got this by mistake one of my application.

What I want to know what, if I use a number (integer value) as a character it holds another integer value. What is the meaning/purpose of that?

Just forget about the casting on code line 2. I put it there to keep similarities between two code lines.

Characters are numbers. 49 is the ASCII code for '1'.

Ya it is true. But if I'm use a number 1, simply as a character, it hold another int value, 49. Why is that.

Because all characters are stored as ASCII and if you cast a char to a numeric type you get its ASCII code.

It works the other way too:

Code:

---

char c = (char)49;
Console.WriteLine("I has a value: " + c);

---

By the way, that looks like C#, not C or C++.

Thanks, now I got that where I'm going wrong.

By the way, I put this on a wrong place. If you can move it to the right place.