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Is there a kotlin only replacement for the java method `Character.getNumericValue()` ? It would be useful in kmp but i can't seem to find one.

Depends on what you need. There is <https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.text/digit-to-int.html|Char.digitToInt> but it doesn't handle roman numerals like `\u216C` , while Java's method does. If you only need digits in the `0-9` range (or `a-z` range in bases &gt; 10), then `digitToInt` should be enough

`digitToInt`  works for numbers only. the getNumericValues actually returns the full width number for A-Z which i am looking for. so `A` is `10` etc...

A colleague of mine wrote a blogpost about this: <https://blog.jdriven.com/2019/10/converting-char-to-int-in-kotlin/>

thanks. i actually found this blog post but it describes to use getNumericValues which i can not use in KMP

for a simple solution i mapped the chars manually to the supported range in need

My apologies then :slightly_smiling_face: happy you found a solution!

no worries. thanks for chipping in. maybe your colleague finds a better solution for KMP as well ;)

&gt; digitToInt  works for numbers only. the getNumericValues actually returns the full width number for A-Z which i am looking for. so A is 10 etc...
You need to specify `radix` parameter &gt; 10 to work with digits A-Z.