I might be overlooking an obvious solution, but ho...

# getting-started

[Diaa Jad]

I might be overlooking an obvious solution, but how to convert a char to an Int?
var.toInt() returns the ASCII value of the character.

[stkent]

Might be useful: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8MA7FA/p1512140078000619

[Diaa Jad]

Thanks. I'm actually subtracting 48 from the value, but was hoping for a neater solution.
Good idea of creating an advent-of-code group btw 🙂

[adam-mcneilly]

So what I ended up doing in my final solution was just '4'.toString().toInt() because I felt like subtracting '0' was not immediately obvious. There's also a youtrack issue for a feature request for a char.asDigit() method.

[Diaa Jad]

Right, it is a bit cleaner. Anyway, I hope they add the extension method that you suggested.
See you at the advent-of-code channel 😉

[Andreas Sinz]

@Diaa Jad there is Character.toNumericInt(char) from the java stdlib

[Diaa Jad]

@Andreas Sinz thanks, I'll try that.