Division of a number by a character

Question

Why and how? Could someone explain to me

https://code.sololearn.com/cfqXZk942xMO/?ref=app

Answer 1

The character will be treated as number, the value of a character here is the ASCII code for the respective character. This happens when you mix numbers with characters in an arithmetic operation.

x = 100
'a' ASCII code is 97
x / 'a' equals to 100 / 97

Answer 2

Char has an ASCII value - you can perform some arithmetic operation with them.

A = 65
B = 66
C = 67...

Java will convert this automatically:

char letterF = 65+5;

System.out.print(letterF);
Output: F

Google " ASCII table" to find all values

Also a fun exercise:
- Type out hello world with ints,
- print out the alphabet using a for loop

Answer 3

Thanks guys!