Question

I need to send a request to a quote server. Each request should have a distinctive request number (unsigned int) so that when quotes returned with that attached request number I will know to which symbol those quotes belong. Is there any special chars encoding for this type of cases ? E.g. “A” is 13 and “B” is 14, so for “BA” symbol my request number will be 1413.

Answer 1

Will the characters always be capitals A-Z? If so, something simple like this will convert it in the manner that you’ve described:

var symbol = "BA";
var encoded = symbol.Aggregate(0u, (acc, c) => (uint)(acc * 100 + c - 'A' + 13));