# Convert Ascii value in tag to String **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [March 15, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490 "2021-03-15T18:06:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hydradenlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hydradenlon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hydradenlon)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/1 "2021-03-15T18:06:18Z")
Tag recieving data from input as Ascii (int value) but I want to convert Ascii to String to show as a character \*for example right now tag value is 65 and I want to convert to “A” Thank you , ---
**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/2 "2021-03-15T19:37:25Z")
Where ever you are using the value, in a script you can just use the chr() function to convert the value over to the Ascii character. ```auto asciiString = chr(system.tag.readBlocking(['yourTagPath'][0].value) ``` ---
**Author:** ![hydradenlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hydradenlon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hydradenlon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/3 "2021-03-16T01:36:27Z")
Where do I put this code in design? ---
**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/4 "2021-03-16T02:23:38Z")
That depends on what you’re trying to accomplish with it. ---
**Author:** ![hydradenlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hydradenlon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hydradenlon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/5 "2021-03-16T09:01:18Z")
Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 2, in AttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘value’ change = system .tag.readBlocking(’[default]_Modbus_/UnitId 1/1\_test1-1\_test20’[0].value) print str(change) I put it in Script Console , the result is error What’s the problem? ---
**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/6 "2021-03-16T11:27:42Z")
Your second. `)` is in the wrong place. It should be ```auto change = system.tag.readBlocking(‘[default]Modbus/UnitId 1/1_test1-1_test20’)[0].value ``` ---
**Author:** ![hydradenlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@hydradenlon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hydradenlon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/7 "2021-03-17T04:04:09Z")
I follow your advice ,but the result still error SyntaxError: ("no viable alternative at input 'print'", ('', 2, 0, 'print code\n')) And then I try ```auto tagValue = system.tag.readBlocking('[default]_Modbus_/UnitId 1/1_test1-1_test20/1_test2')[0].value code = chr(tagValue) print code ``` The result is error too. Java Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.TypeUtilities.coerce(TypeUtilities.java:1422) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.coerce(PyArgumentMap.java:130) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.interpretPyArgs(PyArgumentMap.java:82) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.interpretPyArgs(PyArgumentMap.java:40) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.AbstractTagUtilities.readBlocking(AbstractTagUtilities.java:361) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.ClassCastException: Cannot coerce value '[default]_Modbus_/UnitId 1/1\_test1-1\_test20/1\_test2' into type: interface java.util.List ``` at org.python.core.Py.JavaError(Py.java:552) at org.python.core.Py.JavaError(Py.java:543) at org.python.core.PyReflectedFunction. __call__ (PyReflectedFunction.java:190) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.ScriptManager$ReflectedInstanceFunction. __call__ (ScriptManager.java:523) at org.python.core.PyObject. __call__ (PyObject.java:480) at org.python.core.PyObject. __call__ (PyObject.java:484) at org.python.pycode._pyx9.f$0(:3) at org.python.pycode._pyx9.call_function() at org.python.core.PyTableCode.call(PyTableCode.java:171) at org.python.core.PyCode.call(PyCode.java:18) at org.python.core.Py.runCode(Py.java:1614) at org.python.core.Py.exec(Py.java:1658) at org.python.util.PythonInterpreter.exec(PythonInterpreter.java:276) at org.python.util.InteractiveInterpreter.runcode(InteractiveInterpreter.java:131) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.gui.tools.jythonconsole.JythonConsole$ConsoleWorker.doInBackground(JythonConsole.java:605) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.gui.tools.jythonconsole.JythonConsole$ConsoleWorker.doInBackground(JythonConsole.java:593) at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ``` Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: Cannot coerce value '[default]_Modbus_/UnitId 1/1\_test1-1\_test20/1\_test2' into type: interface java.util.List at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.TypeUtilities.coerce(TypeUtilities.java:1422) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.coerce(PyArgumentMap.java:130) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.interpretPyArgs(PyArgumentMap.java:82) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.interpretPyArgs(PyArgumentMap.java:40) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.AbstractTagUtilities.readBlocking(AbstractTagUtilities.java:361) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.python.core.PyReflectedFunction. **call** (PyReflectedFunction.java:188) ... 19 more Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.TypeUtilities.coerce(TypeUtilities.java:1422) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.coerce(PyArgumentMap.java:130) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.interpretPyArgs(PyArgumentMap.java:82) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.PyArgumentMap.interpretPyArgs(PyArgumentMap.java:40) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script.builtin.AbstractTagUtilities.readBlocking(AbstractTagUtilities.java:361) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.ClassCastException: Cannot coerce value '[default]_Modbus_/UnitId 1/1\_test1-1\_test20/1\_test2' into type: interface java.util.List > > > ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/8 "2021-03-17T04:56:22Z")
> [@hydradenlon](#): > > java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.ClassCastException: Cannot coerce value ‘[default] _Modbus_ /UnitId 1/1\_test1-1\_test20/1\_test2’ into type: interface java.util.List This is giving you an error because `system.tag.readBlocking` needs a list, even if there's only one tag to read. Add square brackets around the tag name as below. Once this bites you enough times, you'll start to remember the first time--or at least that's the way it worked for me 😅 ```auto change = system.tag.readBlocking(['[default]Modbus/UnitId 1/1_test1-1_test20'])[0].value ``` ---
**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-ascii-value-in-tag-to-string/44490/9 "2021-03-17T05:27:48Z")
> [@witman](#): > > Once this bites you enough times, you’ll start to remember the first time–or at least that’s the way it worked for me 😅 🤦‍♂️ Apparently not. Sorry for the buggy script @hydradenlon