Java Program to find ASCII value of a Character

ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, each letter of english alphabets is assigned a number ranging from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for uppercase P is 80.
In Java programming, we have two ways to find ASCII value of a character 1) By assigning a character to the int variable 2) By type casting character value as int

Lets write a program to understand how it works:

Example: Program to find ASCII code of a character

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        char ch = 'P';
        int asciiCode = ch;
        // type casting char as int
        int asciiValue = (int)ch;

        System.out.println("ASCII value of "+ch+" is: " + asciiCode);
        System.out.println("ASCII value of "+ch+" is: " + asciiValue);
    }
}

Output:

ASCII value of P is: 80
ASCII value of P is: 80