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Golang program to get the ASCII value of a character

Here, we are going to learn how to get the ASCII value of a character in Golang (Go Language)? By Nidhi Last updated : March 28, 2023

Getting the ASCII value of a character in Golang

In this program, we will create a variable of byte type initialize with an 'A' and then print both character and ASCII value on the console screen.

Golang code to get the ASCII value of a character

The source code to get the ASCII value of a character is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Golang program to get the ASCII value of a character.

package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    //Declare a character type variable.
    var val byte = 'A'
    
    fmt.Printf("Character value: %c",val) 
    fmt.Printf("\nASCII value: %d",val) 
}

Output

Character value: A
ASCII value: 65

Explanation

In the above program, we declare the package main. The main package is used to tell the Go language compiler that the package must be compiled and produced the executable file. Here, we imported the fmt package that includes the files of package fmt then we can use a function related to the fmt package.

Now, we come to the main() function. The main() function is the entry point for the program. Here, we created a variable val of byte type, which is initialized with the 'A' value. After that printed character and ASCII value of variable val using Printf() function on the console screen.

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