Convert from char to byte?

[D diller]

I am having a heck of a time converting from a char to a byte - probably because chars are two bytes...

In either case, whenever I try to convert I get the ASCII value of the character.

Ex:

byte digit = (byte) aChar;

if aChar = 4, I get 52 for the value of digit, which is the ASCII value of 4.

Any clues?

[Paul Clapham]

I suppose you mean that aChar = '4'. Then this is normal, the character is cast to its Unicode representation. Did you want something else to happen? If so, then what?

[D diller]

Wanted digits = 4 like it would if I converted from a String.

[Rob Spoor]

Use '4' - '0'. Be careful though to handle the case where your character is not between '0' and '9' inclusive.

[Campbell Ritchie]

There is a method in the java.lang.Character class called something like numericValue. That might help.