How to get sum of char values produced in a loop?

Question

Sorry if the title is misleading or is confusing, but here is my dilemma. I am inputting a string, and want to assign a value to each capitalized letter in the alphabet (A=1, ..

Answer 1

Change only your for to these:

int sum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < ch.length; i++){
    sum += (int) ch[i] - 96;
    System.out.println(sum);
}

The sum += (int) ch[i] - 96; is because the char a is the value 97, as your say, you want char a corresponde to 1, note that a is different than A

Check the char value here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/15-1XX/common/handouts/ascii.html

This was tested and worked fine! Good Luck