C Program to Find the Sum of ASCII values of all Characters in a String

This C Program finds the sum of the ASCII values of all characters that were used in a string.

Here is a source code of the C program to find the sum of the ASCII values of all characters that were used in a string. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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 * C Program to Find the Sum of ASCII values of all Characters

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 * in a String
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <string.h>
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#include <ctype.h>
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int sumascii(char [], int);
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int main()
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    char str1[30];
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    int sum;
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    printf("Enter a string: ");
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    scanf("%s", str1);
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    sum = sumascii(str1, 0);
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    printf("The sum of all ascii values in '%s' is %d.\n", str1, sum);

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    return 0;
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}
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int sumascii(char str[], int num)
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    if (num < strlen(str))
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        return (str[num] + sumascii(str, num + 1));

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    }
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    return 0;
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}
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$ gcc asciisum.c 
$ ./a.out
Enter a string: education
The sum of all ascii values in 'education' is 956.

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