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Understanding ASCII Code and Its Uses

The document provides an overview of ASCII code, detailing its character range, categories, and specific ASCII values for control characters, digits, uppercase and lowercase letters, and special characters. It also includes formulas for calculating ASCII values and demonstrates how to convert between characters and ASCII using Python functions. Additionally, it contrasts ASCII with Unicode, highlighting their differences in character support and encoding length.

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Understanding ASCII Code and Its Uses

The document provides an overview of ASCII code, detailing its character range, categories, and specific ASCII values for control characters, digits, uppercase and lowercase letters, and special characters. It also includes formulas for calculating ASCII values and demonstrates how to convert between characters and ASCII using Python functions. Additionally, it contrasts ASCII with Unicode, highlighting their differences in character support and encoding length.

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ASCII Code Range


0 – 127 → Total 128 characters
Uses 7 bits

ASCII Code Categories

1. Control Characters (0–31 and 127)


Used to control devices, not printable.

Code Character Meaning

7 BEL Beep

8 BS Backspace

9 TAB Horizontal tab

10 LF New line

13 CR Carriage return

127 DEL Delete

2. Digits (0–9)
Character ASCII

0 48

1 49

5 53

9 57

📌 Formula:
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ASCII of digit = 48 + digit

3. Uppercase Letters (A–Z)


Character ASCII

A 65

B 66

Z 90

📌 Formula:
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ASCII of uppercase letter = 65 + position − 1


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4. Lowercase Letters (a–z)


Character ASCII

a 97

b 98

z 122

📌 Formula:
arduino

ASCII of lowercase letter = 97 + position − 1


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5. Special Characters
Character ASCII

Space 32

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Character ASCII

! 33

@ 64

# 35

$ 36

Important ASCII Relationships (Very Important for Exams)


Relationship Example

A < a 65 < 97

Uppercase & lowercase difference a - A = 32

Digits before letters 9 (57) < A (65)

ASCII in Python

ord() → Character to ASCII

python

print(ord('A'))
print(ord('a'))
print(ord('0'))

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Output

65
97
48

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chr() → ASCII to Character

python

print(chr(65))
print(chr(97))
print(chr(48))

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Output

css

A
a
0

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ASCII and Comparison in Python


python

print('A' < 'a')


print('9' < 'A')
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Output

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True
True
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📌 Comparison is based on ASCII values

ASCII vs Unicode (1-line difference)


ASCII Unicode

128 characters 1,000,000+ characters

English only All languages

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ASCII Unicode

7-bit Variable length

One-line Exam Answers ⭐


ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
It uses 7 bits and supports 128 characters.
ASCII assigns numeric values to characters.

If you want, I can also provide:


ASCII table PDF
MCQs & PYQs
Short notes for revision
Binary–ASCII conversion
Difference between ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8

Just tell me 👍

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