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Tip: #67 - Showing the ASCII value of the current character

Created: May 7, 2001 5:56 Complexity: intermediate Author: Erhan Version: 5.7 Karma: 217/107 Imported from: Tip#67

Sometimes we programmers need the value of a character, don't we?

You can learn the ASCII value of a character by pressing ga in command mode or :as / :ascii on the command line

This displays the value of the character under the cursor in dec, hex and octal... To get the same for a multibyte character use g8

You can also add options to the statusline option to show the ASCII value of the character under the cursor.

:set statusline=%<%f%h%m%r%=%b\ 0x%B\ \ %l,%c%V\ %P

It's the %b\ 0x%B that does the trick. See :help statusline for detail. Note that you may need to :set laststatus=2 (or 1) so that the status line is visible. See vim's help on laststatus.

Comments

The mnemonic I use to remember ga is "get ascii" but I guess that is an obvious one...

scrott--AT--users.sourceforge.net, May 9, 2001 22:29

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 {{Tip
 |id=67
+|title=Showing ASCII value of the current character
-|title=Ascii Value
 |created=May 7, 2001 5:56
 |complexity=intermediate
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 |rating=217/107
 |text=
-Sometimes we, the programmers, need the value of a character, don't we?
+Sometimes we programmers need the value of a character, don't we?
-You can learn the ascii value of a character by pressing g and a keys.(ga)!
+You can learn the ASCII value of a character by pressing '''ga''' in command mode or ''':as''' / ''':ascii''' on the command line
-It displays the value in dec, hex and octal...
+This displays the value of the character under the cursor in dec, hex and octal...
 }}
+To get the same for a multibyte character use '''g8'''
+You can also add options to the statusline option to show the
-== Comments ==
+ASCII value of the character under the cursor.
-You can also add options to the statusline option to show what the
-ascii value of the character under the cursor is.
-set statusline=%&lt;%f%h%m%r%=%b 0x%B %l,%c%V %P
+ :set statusline=%<%f%h%m%r%=%b\ 0x%B\ \ %l,%c%V\ %P
- ^^^^^^^^
+It's the '''%b\ 0x%B''' that does the trick.  See ''':help statusline''' for detail.  Note that you may need to :set laststatus=2 (or 1) so that the status line is visible. See vim's help on '''laststatus'''.
-The underlined part is what does it.
+== Comments ==
-dp--AT--orion.spectral-sys.com
-, May 9, 2001 6:35
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 The mnemonic I use to remember ga is "get ascii" but I guess that is an obvious one...
-scrott--AT--users.sourceforge.net
+scrott--AT--users.sourceforge.net, May 9, 2001 22:29
-, May 9, 2001 22:29
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-doesn't work with multibyte editing :-(
-stephane--AT--tuxfinder.org
-, June 5, 2001 5:00
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-For multibyte use g8.
-Alexey Marinichev
-, June 7, 2001 14:57
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-all i want is a backwards 3, where the 3 is facing the other way.....
-Tengauge12--AT--yahoo.com
-, August 30, 2006 3:45
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