[please help] converting text to ascii

[victoria61]

I have to write console program where it changes any text to ASCII. The text has to be written to array and then converted.
For example:
input: Nc
output: 7899

I only have this, but it's converting only first char and after putting Nc there's only 78. Please help.

  int main()
{
	unsigned char text;
	int array[256];
	int i = 0;
	int ascii;

	cout << "Write text:" << endl;
	cin >> text;


	for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
	{
		array[i] = text % 256;
		text = text / 256;
	}


	for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
	{
		ascii = (int)array[i];
	}
	
	cout << "ASCII: \n" << ascii;


	system("pause");
    return 0;
}

[48T7M4Gy]

#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    char text[100];

    std::cout << "Write text: ";
    std::cin >> text;

    for (int i = 0; i < strlen(text); i++)
       std::cout << (int)text[i];
	
    return 0;
}

Write text: Nc
7899 

[victoria61]

Thank you so much! Can you tell me why there has to be 100 and not 256? And what "strlen" does?

[48T7M4Gy]

Try it out with different sizes. Try 256. If you look up 'arrays' in the tutorial you'll see how they work and why 100 would cover most sentence inputs. Try 2 and there won't be enough storage space for sentences of more than 2+1 characters and the program will crash.

strlen() is a function that is included in string.h and it determines the number of characters in the sentence. Have a look in the reference section of this site http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strlen/?kw=strlen

You're on the right track if you study/understand/learn about each line of the code I wrote and compare/adapt it with yours. The temptation is to just copy it and not learn anything.