Re: Converting a string into ASCII and a bit more - newbie

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This ought to work:
<?php
$string = 'ABCDEFGHIJ';
$chars = preg_split('//', $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($chars); $i++) {
	$chars[$i] = ord($chars[$i]);
	//$chars[$i] = ord($chars[$i]) + 10;
}
$string = implode('', $chars);
?> 

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 22:32, Alp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My question could have quite stright forward answer or the question itself
> might be silly but being a newbie, I'll ask it anyway.
>  First I am trying to convert each character in a string into their
> respective ASCII codes and then keep these again in a string. Such as:
> string : ABCDEFGHIJ, expect to see in the result : 65666768697071727374
> Then I would like to further manipulate this result with some math, say add
> 10 to each pair (the ascii code) so the new result becomes:
> 75767778798081828384
> For my first attempt I tried:
> $x=1
> while ($x<=strlen($string)) {
>     $holder = ord(substr($string, $x, 1));
>     $result = $result . $holder;
>     }
> and failed since it takes ages to process and does not really return a
> proper value/result but repetitive number such as 11111..........
> I have also tried a 'for' example I found which failed as well.
> I truely hope an expert here could show me some light and point me in the
> right direction.
> I have 2 sets installed on my PC as PHPDEV423 and XAMPP 1.4.9 (set to use
> php4) and it fails in both.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Alp
> P.S.: I hope I have posted this in the correct NG
-- 
Regards,
Matthew Fonda

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