If you want to get the ASCII value of a character, or just convert it into an int, you need to cast from a char to an int.
What's casting? Casting is when we explicitly convert from one primitve data type, or a class, to another. Here's a brief example.
public class char_to_int
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
char myChar = 'a';
int i = (int) myChar; // cast from a char to an int
System.out.println ("ASCII value - " + i);
}
In this example, we have a character ('a'), and we cast it to an integer. Printing this integer out will give us the ASCII value of 'a'.