C Programming Code Examples C > Beginners Lab Assignments Code Examples C Program to Find ASCII value of a Character C Program to Find ASCII value of a Character ASCII value represents the English characters as numbers, each letter is assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII value for uppercase X is 88. This program takes the character entered by user and displays the ASCII value of it. #include <stdio.h> int main() { char ch; printf("Enter any character:"); /* Reads the entered character and stores it * into the char variable ch */ scanf("%c", &ch); /* Using the format specifiers we can get the ASCII code * of a character. When we use %d format specifier for a * char variable then it displays the ASCII value of a char */ printf("ASCII value of character %c is: %d", ch, ch); return 0; }