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

It would look something like this (in C programming language) which you can easily modify for other programming languages:

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main() {
  int i;
  char word[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  unsigned int sum = 0;
  unsigned int charVal;

  for (i=0; i < strlen(word); ++i) {
    charVal = word[i] - 'A' + 1;
    printf("Value of %c is %d\n", word[i], charVal);
    sum += charVal;
  }
  printf("Sum of %s = %d\n", word, sum);
  return(0);
}

The trick is to take the character value, subtract the baseline 'A' value and add 1 to arrive at your calculation range:

charVal = word[i] - 'A' + 1;