domsson / ascum

Adds up the ASCII values of a string and prints the sum

ascum

ASCII sum

Sums up the ASCII values of all characters in the given string and prints the result to stdout.

Note: ascum is not UTF-8 aware; it treats a string as series of bytes and adds up the decimal values of each byte.

Usage

ascum [-f INT] [-h] [-n] [-p] [INPUT]

Options:

• -f INT Add this number to every character's ASCII value
• -h Print this help text and exit
• -n Do not print a trailing newline character
• -p Only sum up ASCII values for printable characters

Example usages

ascum "hello world"
1116

echo "hello world" | ascum
1126

echo -n "hello world" | ascum
1116

echo "hello world" | ascum -p
1116

ascum -f-96 "hello world"
124