Here you can find the source of charToByte(char ch)
public static byte charToByte(char ch)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2000, 2014 QNX Software Systems and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors://w w w. j a v a 2s . c o m * QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation * Freescale Semiconductor - Address watchpoints, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=118299 * Patrick Chuong (Texas Instruments) - Update CDT ToggleBreakpointTargetFactory enablement (340177) * Marc Khouzam (Ericsson) - Support for dynamic printf (400628) *******************************************************************************/ public class Main { public static byte charToByte(char ch) { if (Character.isDigit(ch)) { return (byte) (ch - '0'); } if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'f') { return (byte) (0xa + ch - 'a'); } if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'F') { return (byte) (0xa + ch - 'A'); } return 0; } }