Serge's World

In C#, the char data type represents a text character. Internally though, this value is pretty much a numeric value.

Think here of Ascii or Unicode values. These codings essentially map a character to a particular numeric value, which is what the char data type stores.

One rather interesting side effect of this is that you can iterate through character values in exactly the same way as you would for an int or long.

In the sample code below, the code loops through all the capital letters of the alphabet, adding each letter to a string.

string alphabet = "";
for (char c = 'A'; c <= 'Z'; c++)
{
    alphabet += c.ToString();
}

Originally posted on my old blog, Smoky Cogs, on 17 Oct 2010