Convert ASCII number to ASCII Character in C

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In C is there a way to convert an ASCII value typed as an int into the the corresponding ASCII character as a char

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If i is the int  then  char c   i    makes it a char  You might want to add a check that the value is  lt 128 if it comes from an untrusted source  This is best done with isascii from  lt ctype h gt   if available on your system  see  Steve Jessop s comment to this answer

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If the number is stored in a string  which it would be if typed by a user   you can use atoi   to convert it to an integer   An integer can be assigned directly to a character  A character is different mostly just because how it is interpreted and used   char c   atoi  61

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You can assign int to char directly    int a   65  char c   a  printf   c   c     In fact this will also work    printf   c   a       assuming a is in valid range

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